Avado was also a finalist in the world's most competitive startup competition -- TechCrunch Disrupt.
Microsoft and Automattic, the company behind WordPress, announced their partnership at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Monday.
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In the meantime, expect some big announcements from Qwiki today at TechCrunch Disrupt during their 2PM presentation.
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Second company up is Vocre, from MyLanguage Labs a company that launched at Techcrunch Disrupt last year.
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Publisher Greg Clayman said at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today that almost 1 million people have downloaded the app.
Monday was the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt, the start-up launch conference.
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Today, TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld interviewed Flipboard founder Mike McCue at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
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Last September, Qwiki won top prize at Internet startup conference TechCrunch Disrupt, putting it on the map for potential investors.
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He did a 45 minute show during TechCrunch Disrupt that turned into a big acquisition celebration as well, for example.
The young company received "Best Mobile App" and "Audience Choice" awards upon their launch on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield.
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On September 11, of all days, at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, he gave his first public interview since the IPO and he was on.
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No, says Facebook Engineering Vice President Mike Schoepfer, who talked with TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this morning in San Francisco.
In an interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this morning in San Francisco, Rose talked about his relatively new role as a venture capitalist.
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Michael Arrington, the editor of TechCrunch and the organizer of the TechCrunch Disrupt conferences, defended venture capitalists and Silicon Valley males in a blog post last summer.
Graham talked with Charlie Rose at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference about four things he looks for in a company (as mentioned in a Forbes cover story on Graham): determination, flexibility, imagination and naughtiness.
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Thiel moves fast: the next day, at TechCrunch Disrupt, an annual conference in San Francisco, he announced the Thiel Fellowships: twenty two-year grants, of a hundred thousand dollars each, to people under the age of twenty.
To ensure this compelling story resonates with both the general public and Wall Street, I expect that Mayer will tone down her outreach to bloggers and other press, maybe not even continue her efforts with TechCrunch Disrupt.
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Some startups including some from Y Combinator are also getting too hyped, and as a result have trouble getting the assistance they need to become major companies, Khosla said at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
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In a talk with TechCrunch founder and non-editor Mike Arrington today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Kutcher talked about why he has gotten so deeply into tech investing and what he looks for in startups.
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While Facebook continues its world domination plan, at least in the area of social networking, Reid Hoffman, one of its earliest investors, says the people need more than one social network, during an on-stage interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Monday.
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The TechCrunch Disrupt conference is about bringing together entrepreneurs and would-be tech company founders to talk up ideas, showcase new social and mobile products and services and get the innovators together with angel investors and venture capitalist who can help bring their inventions to light.
TechCrunch also hosts industry-leading conferences and events, including The Disrupt series, The Crunchies Awards and various meet-ups worldwide.
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