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RefreshBox Lets Anyone Create Newsletters Featuring The Week’s “Best Reads”
It’s been said the death of email newsletters has been greatly exaggerated. Case in point, perhaps: a new startup called RefreshBox, which lets anyone easily curate their own weekly newsletter. The service has seen 62 percent week-over-week growth in the now 15 weeks it’s been live, and today serves 3,700 subscriptions to some 1,200 email recipients from 207 different curators. Read More
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Watch As SpaceX Launches CRS-6 Resupply Rocket And Tries Drone Ship Recovery
You can watch live as SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket and attempts to recover the first stage portion via an automated, barge-based landing plan in the Atlantic ocean right here, with the first take-off attempted scheduled for 4:33 PM ET, provided conditions remain good and pre-flight checks go well. A big part of this mission, designated CRS-6 and designed primarily as a resupply flight… Read More
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Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat
Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat. Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Twitter has been contacting celebrities who use Meerkat, trying to convince them Meerkat is dying and that they should use Periscope instead. Sources also say Twitter has been in touch with media companies that use Meerkat, going… Read More
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Instacart Is Quietly Working With Third Parties To Outsource (Some Of) Its Deliveries
Instacart, the on-demand grocery delivery startup that is reportedly valued north of $2 billion, is growing fast in 15 markets throughout the country. As it seeks to meet that demand, the company has begun experimenting with outsourcing deliveries through third-party companies, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Read More
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Snapchat Goes Hard At Coachella With New Dynamic Filters
Snapchat wants to usurp Instagram as they way to share Coachella Music Festival adventure. So today it revealed a new style of Geofilters that change throughout the day to tell friends what they’re looking at. Rather than just a generic “Coachella” illustration that can be overlaid on photos or videos all day, Snapchat has different ones for each Coachella band that are… Read More
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FanBread Says It Can Help Online Celebs Make Money By Creating Their Own Websites
If you’re big on YouTube or Vine or whatever, a startup called FanBread aims to help you make money — specifically by building and monetizing a website of your very own. The company is only emerging from stealth mode today, but founder and CEO Karl House told me he’s done something similar before, when he served as head of sales and business development at YouTube network… Read More
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Chris Dixon Is Coming To Disrupt NY To Talk About All The Weird Shit He’s Investing In
Today we’re pleased to announce that Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz, will be joining us at Disrupt NY. This is great news, and let me tell you why. Usually venture capitalists are pretty boring. They generally wear khakis while on the hunt for whatever the next Uber-for-X or Airbnb-for-Y will be. They know what all the hot new messaging apps are, and have… Read More
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Where Is The Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon Winner Now?
With Disrupt NY 2015 only a month away, we thought it’d be fun to look back at the winner of the Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon to see what they’ve been up to in the last year. As you may recall, the virtual reality app Vrban took home the grand prize.
So, where is last year’s Hackathon winner now? Read More
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There Are Only 2 Days Left To Save $1000 On Disrupt NY Tickets
The clock is counting down to Disrupt New York (May 4 – May 6, if we’re getting specific) and that means early bird pricing for tickets is about to expire.
The window closes on Friday and once it does, prices will go up by $1,000 so consider this fair warning. Get out ahead of this.
Disrupt New York is set to be TechCrunch’s best conference yet, with a speakers list that… Read More
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Lobster Wants To Be The Google Of User Generated Content
Lobster, a marketplace for licensing user-generated content, is now launching a universal search feature that allows brands and publishers to search for user-generated content across multiple social platforms.
The search functionality allows users, usually corporate marketers, digital agencies or publishers, to run a search across various social media for specific imagery and then request a… Read More
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