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Twitter Acquires Local Discovery Startup Spindle, Will End Spindle Service -
Twitter acquired Spindle, an app for local discovery, today. The Spindle team will move to San Francisco and shutter the Spindle app.TechCrunch 2 hours ago:
Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot In $403M Deal, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry -
Today Stratasys announced that it has acquired MakerBot, as we reported, in a stock deal worth $403 million based on the current share value of Stratasys.TechCrunch 2 hours ago:
Microsoft Was Close To A Nokia Acquisition Before Talks Broke Down Recently, WSJ Reports -
Microsoft and Nokia have gotten pretty cosy over the past few years, and at the time of the announcement of the Finnish company's decision to use Windows Phone OS to power its smartphones, many speculated it was the first overture for a coming acquisition.TechCrunch 2 hours ago:
Google's Dart SDK and Editor Hit Beta With Improved Performance, Smarter Code Completion And More -
Google today launched the first beta version of its Dart SDK and Editor. With this update, Google says, the SDK can now produce significantly smaller and faster JavaScript code and make it easier for Dart developers to deploy their code.TechCrunch 3 hours ago:
Zynga Acquires Spooky Cool Labs To Boost Its Social Casino Push -
In spite of the recent layoffs, Zynga is still picking up talent in strategic areas like social casino gaming.TechCrunch 3 hours ago:
Cortica Raises $6.4M To Improve Visual Search And In-Image Ads -
Cortica, a startup developing technology for analyzing in-image content, is announcing that it has raised $6.TechCrunch 4 hours ago:
Twitter Adds Easier Column Navigation To Tweetdeck For Power Users -
Twitter added new features to Tweetdeck today that make it easier to arrange and consume various feeds.TechCrunch 4 hours ago:
Founder Stories: Airbnb's Nate Blecharczyk On Being The Only Engineer For The First Year -
This week on Founder Stories, I sat down with Airbnb co-founder Nate Blecharczyk. One of the things that strikes me as original to Airbnb's founding team is that, unlike most startups I can think of, two of the co-founders are designers, and Blecharczyk, who's a co-founder and CTO, is an engineer.TechCrunch 4 hours ago:
Backed By First Round's Dorm Room Fund, Pagevamp Turns Facebook Pages Into Websites -
It feels like startups are taking more and more steps to make the website creation process as easy as possible.TechCrunch 4 hours ago:
