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Kelora Patent Found Obvious: Are Other “Obvious” Software Patents In Danger?
Editor’s note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and... Continue reading »
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10 Reasons To Quit Your Job Right Now!
The game is over. That game where they get to hire you for 40 years, pay you far less than you create, and then give you a gold watch, and then you get bored, you get depressed, and you die alone. It... Continue reading »
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The Mysterious Words You Can’t Tweet
The legend goes something like this: as a child, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s father would relentlessly hound him to “Get better”, so Jack eventually banned the phrase from... Continue reading »
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Devon Steampunk Tread 1 Watch Looks Like Something An Extraordinary Gentleman Would Wear
California-based watch maker Devon made a name for themselves a few years ago when they released the Tread 1. The modern looking electro-mechanical timepiece dazzled people with its tread-based... Continue reading »
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Gillmor Gang: Adventures in Medication
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — explodes in opinions about Facebook IPO, Facebook privacy or lack of it, Facebook acquisition... Continue reading »
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Backstage at Disrupt, Greylock’s John Lilly on Building Apps for Phones vs Tablets
Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil If you’re building apps for phones or... Continue reading »
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Selling Software That Kills
The government of Syria uses made-in-California technology from BlueCoat Systems to censor the Internet and spy on its pro-democracy activists (who are regularly arrested and tortured, not to mention... Continue reading »
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Sweating The Small Stuff: Sotheby’s Selling Original Steve Jobs Note About Atari Circuit Improvements
The auction house Sotheby’s is selling an official memo from Steve Jobs to Atari about improving the World Cup Football game. The pages – stamped and signed by Jobs himself –... Continue reading »
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Apple Responds To DOJ eBook Lawsuit, Calls it “Fundamentally Flawed” and “Absurd”
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Apple and a number of other large U.S. publishers of conspiring to fix eBook prices and filed an antitrust lawsuit. While most of the publishers... Continue reading »
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TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games
TinyTap is a new iPad application designed for kids which introduces a different angle on the “record-your-own-voice” storybooks craze, by offering a playable book or game you and your... Continue reading »
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Gillmor Gang Live 05.25.12 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang – John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT. Continue reading »
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MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
MoPub, an ad serving startup for smartphone apps, is announcing a new way for its publishers to offer their inventory to advertisers — a private marketplace limited to select publishers and... Continue reading »
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Gadget Of The Week: The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0
There are plenty of ways to get your flight school kicks with your smartphone or tablet — this missile shooting Griffin chopper comes to mind — but few manage to ooze as much style (or cost as... Continue reading »
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SimplyUs Brings Couples Closer, With An App For Organizing Their Lives Together
There’s a growing number of apps based on the idea of sharing between couples: A few months ago, my colleague Eric Eldon wrote about Pair, which launched out of the latest batch of Y Combinator... Continue reading »
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Death To The Install! Play Facebook Games Straight From News Feed
People don’t want to install and give data permissions to games, they want to play them, so now Facebook is allowing games to be played directly from within news feed or Timeline stories. These... Continue reading »
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White House Receives Flood Of Innovation Fellow Applications After Its Disrupt Announcement
Disrupt isn’t just a great launch platform for startups. Earlier this week at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, President Obama’s senior technology advisor, Todd Park and U.S. CIO Steven... Continue reading »
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PayPal Rolls Out To 15 More National Retailers, Announces Deals With 6 Top POS Software & Terminal Makers
PayPal is expanding its in-store payments technology to 15 new national retailers, following its initial brick-and-mortar rollout with Home Depot earlier this year. At a press conference held... Continue reading »
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Facebook Camera Could Backfire and Get All Of FB’s Apps Buried In A Folder
Not everyone loves Facebook enough to give it three, four, or five spots on their homescreen. So yesterday’s launch of Facebook’s third consumer iOS app Facebook Camera, could actually... Continue reading »
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Talking (And Rocking) With gTar Creator Incident
Sure, UberConference took home the Disrupt Cup and its accompanying $50,000 (giant) check. But it could be argued that Incident, makers of the gTar, had already won. The company’s Kickstarter... Continue reading »
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Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
Exec, a mobile app that instantly gets people to do your errands, has raised $3.3 million, according to an SEC filing. The company’s co-founder Justin Kan, who is also behind Justin.tv,... Continue reading »
