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Michael Arrington Sues Jenn Allen Over Rape Claims
— After issuing an ultimatum to abuse-alleging ex Jenn Allen, TechCrunch founder and investor Michael Arrington is now trying to take her to federal court. In demand for trial filed just yesterday, Arrington's lawyers allege Allen tried to …
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CrunchFund's future
— With nearly 100 portfolio companies and just two remaining partners, what is the future of Michael Arrington's venture capital effort? — FORTUNE — It has been 20 months since TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington launched CrunchFund, a venture capital firm …
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Intel Capital, Samsung Ventures, And Telefonica Digital Become Expect Labs' Newest Strategic Investors
— Expect Labs has already received funding from the likes of Google Ventures and Greylock Partners, but the San Francisco-based startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt alum) announced this morning …
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Here Is How Foursquare Plans On Turning Your Life Into Ads
— On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier today (RIP, Sam Biddle's press credentials!) Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley acknowledged the haters, before offering a confident dismissal: “I think there are a lot of people …
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Wavii Shuts Down as It's Officially Acquired by Google
— Wavii, which aggregated and summarized news, has been bought by Google. — News of the impending deal and its price ("more than $30 million") had already been widely discussed following Business Insider and TechCrunch reports …
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Liberty Global's $15.8B Acquisition Of Virgin Media Is Sailing Through EU Antitrust Court
— Reuters has reported, and TechCrunch has now confirmed with an independent source close to the situation, that the European Union's competition commission is approving the deal for Liberty Global …
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TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington's History of Abuse Allegations Includes an Assault Investigation
— When TechCrunch founder turned venture capitalist Mike Arrington was accused last week of rape and abuse by an ex-girlfriend, many in Silicon Valley were shocked, but not entirely surprised.
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Lowest Cost Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Now On Sale In The U.S. - $25 Model A Suited For Battery/Solar Powered Projects
— The Raspberry Pi microcomputer prides itself on being affordable, with its tiny $35 price-tag for the original Model B Pi. But now its lowest cost board — the $25 Model A …
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).