11-Year Old NJ Girl Gets $300K in Funding
In 2011, I watched 17-year Alex Godin present Dispatch.io at TechCrunch Disrupt’s hackathon. This year at TC Disrupt I heard 18-year old Max Mitchell pitch …
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012: The End
Last year it was pretty clear that the Battlefield contest was between Getaround, the peer-to-peer auto sharing service, and BillGuard, the crowdsourced fraud detection startup. …
More Tales from Startup Alley: Aurality Kinda Reads the News
I’ve always liked the idea of having an app that would read the New York Times to me as I was unwinding on the 5:45 …
Two from Hardware Alley: Sobi and Applosophy
This year the TechCrunch Disrupt NY organizers set aside the last day for hardware vendors. As a social bike fan, I was immediately drawn to …
More Tales from Startup Alley: CallApp CRM-izes Social Data
As a Battlefield finalist, CallApp gave a darn good pitch in front of TechCrunch Disrupt NY attendees in one of the earlier rounds of the …
More Tales from Startup Alley: Qmerce’s Social Game App
There was a significant Israeli presence at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt NY. I met with a few companies at their pavilion, and most of the …
More Tales from Startup Alley: KipCall’s number-free VoIP App
KipCall is a modest VoIP app that I came across at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Similar to a few other well-known consumer models wherein you don’t …
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012 in Pictures
Running around Pier 94 hanger the last two days, we’ve logged a few miles. And we’ve also managed to take a few pictures. AT&T sponsored …
Tales from Startup Alley: Snooozy’s Live Polling for TV Stations
Snooozy is another one of those disruptive apps that brings formerly expensive technology to an underserved market. In this case, it’s live polling technology now …
Tales from Startup Alley: Uberconference Disrupts Voice Conferencing
Hard to believe, but there are two great conferencing apps at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. I just wrote about Oovoo and what they’ve done with video. …
Tales from Startup Alley: Embedle’s Twitter Conversation App
As I was weaving around the Startup Alley streets, I came across Embedle. The name intrigued me. So I made a full stop and turned …
Tales from Startup Alley: Oovoo Makesover Videoconferencing
Life has tasked me with writing about telecom topics–someone has to do it. But for TechCrunch Disrupt, I usually don’t have to take on this …
Tales from Startup Alley: rent2buy
One of the first startups I came across is part of the vibrant Israeli contingent that shows up at TC Disrupt. They’ve done pretty well …
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012: Day 1
The rain may have a kept a few people away yesterday, probably a few less booths than last year, the quirkiness factor was a little …
FCC to Approve Spectrum for Medical Devices
At their May board meeting, the FCC is set to allocate frequencies in the 2360 to 2400 MHz spectrum for short-range, low power medical use. …
TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012
I remember the unseasonal heat-wave that baked NYC last year at this time, and turned the Pier 94 hangar, the home to TechCrunch Disrupt, into …
NJIT Pitch Event Attracts Startups on the Verge
I was at New Jersey Institute of Technology last Thursday for another round of Startupalooza. At this NJ-centric pitchathon, startups of a mostly medical or …
BetterCloud Gets Better with FlashPanel (and $2 million in seed money)
Earlier in the week, I chatted with BetterCloud‘s CEO, David Politis, to learn about their latest app. Called FlashPanel, it extends BetterCloud’s Google Apps portfolio–see …
Harvard Business Review Takes on Email
The HBR Blog Network is where we go to gain insights from our business elite. Their guest bloggers can be counted on to dispense advice …
Bloomberg TV Can Move into Comcast’s Nonexistent News Neigborhoods
Last summer, I wrote about the mind-numbingly tedious battle between Comcast and Bloomberg over whether Bloomberg’s news channel was being exiled to television Siberia in …