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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins   —  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook and are now working as tech investors through Winklevoss Capital …
May 19, 2013, 12:05 AMIn context
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
With PayPal-Like Ambitions For Bitcoin, BitPay Raises $2M Led By Founders Fund   —  BitPay, the startup with ambitions to become the PayPal of the bitcoin world, is today announcing that it has raised another $2 million.  And in a kind of poetic justice, the round is led by none other than the Founders Fund …
May 18, 2013, 2:40 PMIn context
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Grubless?  Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge   —  Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies …
May 18, 2013, 11:20 AMIn context
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Tumblr May Reject Yahoo's $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low”   —  Tumblr employees feel that Yahoo's $1.1 billion offer is “too low” and view it as “only a first offer,” according to sources close to acquisition talks.  Yahoo may have to increase the offer to close the deal.
May 18, 2013, 10:45 AMIn context
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Each Quarter   —  Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing.
May 17, 2013, 9:20 PMIn context
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Growth Since IPO In 12 Big Numbers   —  $FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it's made important progress since going public a year ago.  Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights.
May 17, 2013, 7:35 PMIn context
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo's First Day Up 78%   —  One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space.
May 17, 2013, 4:35 PMIn context
Jay Donovan / TechCrunch:
Indoor Mapping Startup Meridian Adds Notification Zones To Their Strategy   —  Indoor mapping software startup Meridian, continues to evolve their product strategy with a recent update to their offering.  —  Called Zones, the company's newest update to their indoor mapping platform …
May 17, 2013, 3:45 PMIn context
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Google Announces Rebuilt AdMob Developer Tools With Smarter App Promotion, Local Currency Support   —  Mobile app developers using Google's AdMob ad network will start seeing a new version that has been rebuilt “in a ground-up sort of way,” according to Jonathan Alferness, director of product management for mobile ads.
May 17, 2013, 4:25 AMIn context
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
MessageMe Raises A $10M Series A Led By Greylock As It Gears Up For Money And Premium Services In Its Rich Messaging App   —  MessageMe — a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in — has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today.
May 16, 2013, 11:00 PMIn context

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Unison's blog:
“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).