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Internet Pioneer Dwight Merriman To Speak At Disrupt NY This Monthview story

http://techcrunch.com – We’re very pleased to announce that Dwight Merriman, the co-founder and former CTO of DoubleClick and now the co-founder of hot New York startup 10gen, will be joining us onstage at Disrupt NY this month. (IT news)

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SmartAsset Expands Its Home-Buying Tools With Mortgage Advice And Neighborhood Dataview story

http://techcrunch.com – SmartAsset, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that built tools to help you answer tough financial questions, is expanding its offerings today with features for choosing the right neighborhood and the right mortgage. Founder and CEO Michael Carrvin said that there are four broad stages to the home-buying process. (IT news)

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Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins And Andreessen Horowitz Team Up As "Glass Collective" To Invest In Google Glass Ecosystemview story

http://techcrunch.com – Today, Google Ventures announced a partnership with two of the biggest technology venture capital firms in the world, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, on what they’re calling the “Glass Collective.” While this isn’t a fund, the three firms will be sharing seed investment dealflow for entrepreneurs and developers who are working on Google Glass software and hardware. (IT news)

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Hiring Developers? Codassium Combines Collaborative Code Editing And Video Chat Into One Web Appview story

http://techcrunch.com – As just about any startup in the valley world could tell you, hiring good developers is one helluva process. First you’ve gotta find the rare developer who isn’t already drowning in job offers. Then you’ve gotta sit down and chat ‘em up to make sure they’ll be a good fit for your team. Then you’ve gotta make sure they can actually, you know, code. (IT news)

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Intel: risolti i bug del suo installer dei drivers su sistemi a 64bitview story

http://www.oneopensource.it – Qualche tempo fa vi avevamo parlato del nuovo progetto di Intel per Linux, ovvero un programma che tiene aggiornati i vostri driver per schede grafiche Intel. (Software)

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Unroll.me Redesigns Yet Again In A Bid To Better Battle Your Junk Email Subscriptionsview story

http://techcrunch.com – “Lame pitch. Marketing email. Marketing email. Really lame pitch. Marketing email. Oh, well that’s pretty neat.” If you can imagine that muttered monologue taking place every 15 minutes or so for an entire day, you’ve got my email situation in a nutshell. (IT news)

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Oculus Rift Teardown Reveals The Secrets Of On-Your-Face 3D Gamingview story

http://techcrunch.com – I always wanted but never got a Virtual Boy, but I’m glad I waited since the Oculus Rift looks like a much better goggle-based gaming platform. The gadget got the teardown treatment over at iFixit today, thanks to a developer edition secured by the site. The Rift was remarkably easy to pull apart, earning it a very high repairability score. (IT news)

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Lightbank Invests $650,000 In Walk.by, A New Platform Connecting Local Merchants With Online Shoppers By Way Of Smartphonesview story

http://techcrunch.com – Lightbank has invested $650,000 in its own Founder-in-Residence Josh Hernandez’s new startup, Walk.by, a platform for bringing local merchants into the e-commerce world by way of smartphones. (IT news)

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Website Testing Service Optimizely Raises $28M Round Led By Benchmark, Plans Global Expansionview story

http://techcrunch.com – Optimizely, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps companies A/B test different versions of their websites, has raised $28 million in Series A funding. That would be a sizable Series A for most startups, but it’s a particularly big step for Optimizely, which had only raised $3.2 million thus far. (IT news)

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Burner, The One-Click Disposable Phone Number App, Comes To Androidview story

http://techcrunch.com – Sometimes you just need a temporary, disposable phone number. Why? Maybe you’re not too sure about that dude you just met, but you want to give him a chance. Maybe you don’t want weirdos from Craigslist calling you once your couch is gone. (IT news)