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Ultra-Hot Secret Sharing App Whisper Raises $3 Million From Lightspeed, Trinity, And Othersview story

http://techcrunch.com – If you haven’t heard of Whisper yet, get ready to. It’s the latest social app to capture the attention of a huge — and growing — audience of users, as well as the attention of a group of investors. (IT news)

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Check In, Flame Out: How To Save Foursquareview story

http://techcrunch.com – This hasn’t been a great year for Foursquare. “Check-ins are no longer what they used to be,” as Ingrid Lunden observed last month. (IT news)

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Gentry Underwood, CEO And Co-Founder Of Mailbox, To Speak At Disrupt NYview story

http://techcrunch.com – Mailbox launched to much fanfare earlier this year. Heralded as “the best email management app you’ll ever use“, iOS users virtually lined up to try the app. It was a hit. So much so that Dropbox quickly scooped up the team led by CEO and co-founder Gentry Underwood. (IT news)

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Backed By Google, Greylock & Matrix, Sold Launches A Mobile Service That Takes The Hassle Out Of Selling Onlineview story

http://techcrunch.com – While eCommerce has exploded over the last decade, digital marketplaces still suffer the same nagging user experience flaws they always have — particularly person-to-person marketplaces. (IT news)

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Myntra Buys Fitiquette, A Disrupt Finalist With A Virtual Fitting Room, As India's Online Fashion Market Heats Upview story

http://techcrunch.com – Fitiquette, a developer of virtual fitting room technology and a TC Disrupt finalist in September 2012, has been acquired by Myntra, one of the big fashion and lifestyle e-commerce companies in India. (IT news)

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Google's New Inactive Account Manager Gives You Control Over Your Digital Afterlifeview story

http://techcrunch.com – What will happen to your Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google+ accounts after you die? That’s probably not something you really want to think about, but as more and more of our data now lives online, that’s sadly a question that comes up with some regularity. (IT news)

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Piki.fm Goes From Beta To Public As TurnTable Launches Its New Social Network For Music Loversview story

http://techcrunch.com – Today, Turntable.fm’s latest mobile venture is launching out of beta as a free iOS app to the public. Music lovers, meet Piki.fm. Piki.fm is the asyncrhonous counterpart to Turntable.fm’s real-time social music experience. (IT news)

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ProfitBricks Shows It Can Take On AWS With 2.0 Infrastructureview story

http://techcrunch.com – The infrastructure-as-a-service-providers (IaaS) market is starting to exhibit a deeper diversity. Call it the “Cloud 2.0″ era if you will. (IT news)

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Curious Pictures, Producers Of Popular Disney, Nick & PBS Children's Television, Invests In Kids' App Maker PlaySquare, A Startup Building “Touchable TV”view story

http://techcrunch.com – PlaySquare, a startup founded by a team of Emmy-winning children’s television producers interested in bringing “touchable TV” to the iPad, has found a new home and partner in its efforts thanks to an investment from Curious Pictures. (IT news)

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Considering Convertible Debt? Don't Sell Yourself Shortview story

http://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Patricia Nakache is a general partner at Trinity Ventures where she invests in early stage social commerce and entertainment companies. Follow her on Twitter @pnakache. The prevailing wisdom among entrepreneurs these days is that they should initially fund their startups with a $1-2 million convertible note. (IT news)

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UK's EE Will Double 4G Speeds To 130Mbps As It Aims To Pass 1M LTE Users By Dec. 2013view story

http://techcrunch.com – EE, currently the only mobile carrier offering 4G LTE services in the UK, plans to double the speed of its mobile data network in the country’s 10 biggest cities to 130 megabits per second, as it braces itself for competition from other carriers that are scrambling to get their own LTE networks up and running. (IT news)

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Java Applet Attack Wipes Out Bitcoin Accounts On Mt. Goxview story

http://techcrunch.com – The price of freedom, as they say, is eternal vigilance. A user called bitbully on the Bitcointalk Forums found himself 34 bitcoins poorer when he visited a site claiming to be a chat service connected with Mt. Gox, a popular bitcoin trading service. (IT news)