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Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It -
Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us. Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited Two-Factor authentication, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire mechanism… and he's got a patent to prove it.TechCrunch 2 hours ago:
LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui's Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himself -
Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space.TechCrunch 4 hours ago:
Encoding.com's Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Platform Video URLs -
Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish a single universal video URL and then have that content accessible on any device.TechCrunch 5 hours ago:
GiftCards.com Agrees To Buy Giftly To Grow A Mobile Platform -
GiftCards.com, a Pittsburg-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco startup Giftly to grow out a mobile platform.TechCrunch 5 hours ago:
Twitter Ups Web Account Security With Optional Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS -
After hundreds of thousands of accounts were potentially compromised a couple months ago, Twitter today launches two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web.TechCrunch 5 hours ago:
Twitter Introduces Charts By Genre And Popularity For Its #Music Service -
We've confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its #Music service for the web, charts that we were accustomed to from the company We Are Hunted, that it acquired and now powers the service.TechCrunch 6 hours ago:
Founder Stories: Parse's Ilya Sukhar On Founding A Startup With Strangers -
For this week's episode of Founder Stories, I sat down with Ilya Sukhar, co-founder and CEO of Parse.TechCrunch 6 hours ago:
Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud -
Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency.TechCrunch 6 hours ago:
We Want YOU To Be The New TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor -
One of the most rewarding aspects of TechCrunch's Disrupt events is the Startup Battlefield -- like a mini-startup school, the dozens of chosen startups that go through the Battlefield training process end up with solid presentation skills, hard-earned pitching prowess and newfound courage.TechCrunch 6 hours ago:
