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Is it just me or is everyone and their skinny jeans wearing, MGMT-listening mothers a hipster nowadays? Nowhere is this more evident than in tech (thanks Twitter ). And behold, the latest sign of the tech hipster-ocalypse, a startup actually called Hipster
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Is Naming Your Startup “Hipster” Genius Or Terrible?
We’re approaching an end of an era. A time when MG Siegler, my cohost on OMG/JK , will no longer be forced to struggle with AT&T on a daily basis.
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OMG/JK: The Verizon iPhone And The End Of An Era
TechCrunch Disrupt finalist GameCrush is launching its own take on the Chatroulette-like experience today with Crush-O-Matic. The new service is a random game generator where users simply click “Go!” and automatically get matched up with another user in a two-way cam-enabled game session.
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GameCrush’s Crush-O-Matic Blends Chatroulette With Online Gaming
If you’ve got an iPhone or Android device, there’s a decent chance you’re familiar with Bump , the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones together. The service has been around since 2009, and now has 7 million active users across 25 million total installs on Android and iOS devices. And today Bump has some big news: it’s just raised $16 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia, Sherpalo (Ram Shriram), and SV Angel (Ron Conway).
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Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz
Klout’s funding news this morning was quickly drowned out by Square’s funding and then both were drowned out by Groupon’s gargantuan round . But for Klout, the funding round was pretty significant. In raising a surprisingly large $8.5 million, the company was singling its decision not to take a flip and to try to build a big company out of measuring influence online.
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Klout CEO: We Made the Decision to Go for It (TCTV)
Over the past several months, there’s been a shift happening in the Bay Area. Whereas a lot of startups used to be centrally located in actual Silicon Valley, near the tech giants, Standford, and the venture capitalists, they’re increasingly moving north, to the city of San Francisco. (Technically, TechCrunch was one of those startups,
Jules: “Well you know the 3D HD channels on TV?” Vincent Vega: “I don’t watch TV.” Jules: “Well, the way they make the Penthouse 3D HD channels is, they make one show with a dual-lensed camera. That show’s called a 3D porno. Then they show that show to the people who make 3D pornos, and on the strength of that one 3D porno they decide if they’re going to make more 3D porno.
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Penthouse To Create First 3D Porn Channel
Back in July 2009 we wrote about a Y Combinator-funded startup called FlightCaster that looks to help you predict flight delays — before the airline even tells you about them. The service looks at air traffic, weather, and a variety of other factors to predict these delays, and the early warning can be very helpful if you need to book a different flight
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Next Jump Acquires FlightCaster, The Flight Delay Prediction Engine
Hearst Interactive Media , early investors in companies like Pandora, Netscape and Local.com, has taken the lead in a $3 million round of funding for VillageVines , a startup that offers member discounts at upscale restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other major cities in the United States. The media company’s interactive arm led the round, which follows a $750,000 round seed funding round, with GrandBanks Capital and High Peaks Venture Partners participating
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Restaurant Reservation Startup VillageVines Raises $3 Million
