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Mobile Weekend »

MobileWeekend has announced a couple of changes to the event today. The weekend will be held on Sep 12th to the 14th and more importantly the tickets to the event are now FREE of charge. MobileWeekend is a community building event that hopes to bring together brilliant technical and entrepreneurial people to work together over [...]

How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt) »

The time it takes to design, build and deploy web applications has been steadily shrinking, especially with frameworks like Django, Rails and Symfony. With that in mind, we decided to push ourselves and attempt to launch a web app in 32 hours. Four crazy days later, Matt was born.
The app we built is a simple [...]

A Green Coal Baron? »

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When I met with Jim Rogers one day this spring, he tossed back two double espressos in a single hour. A charming and natty 60-year-old, Rogers is the chief executive of the electric company Duke Energy. But he has none of the macho, cowboy stolidity you might expect in an energy C.E.O. [...]

Innovation Toronto, Word Press & Weird Ads . . . »

First let me say that Word Press is fantastic software. We have been using it on this site for almost a year now and have been very satisfied with what it allows us to do.
The success of Word Press in attracting a large blogging community has led to some new attention from hackers. [...]

Introducing A New TechCrunch Video Project: Elevator Pitches »

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“We get a ton of pitches at TechCrunch every single day. It is a deluge we can hardly keep up with. Some are amusing, some are horrible, and a select few rise to the level of deserving a post. The large majority, though, never see the light of day. We thought: Why [...]