Open Garden 2.0 Arrives
It was good to hear again from Open Garden. Last week they announced version 2.0 of their multi-hop, crowdsourced networking software. Those of us who …
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Spring is Here: TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013!
We received our invitation this afternoon to TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013. And that started us thinking about warmer weather and wandering around the aisles of …
Hubbl Team Launches Spacebar: Context-based App Discovery
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2012, the Hubbl team was showing off Hmmm, which was a kind of social networking search app. Since then they’ve changed course …
UberConference Unleashed
UberConference is finally out of private beta and ready to stomp on some legacy audio conferencing ant hills. Remember UberConference? They won TechCrunch Disrupt NYC …
Five Minutes with Getaround’s Jessica Scorpio
One of the high points for me at TechCrunch Disrupt NY was sitting down to talk with Getaround Co-Founder Jessica Scorpio. As you may recall, …
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: 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 …