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This week, Kleiner Perkins partner Matt Murphy joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series. As we discussed on the show, Kleiner Perkins has been making a solid bet on mobile for the past few years. In fact, we’ve confirmed with the firm that the VC firm has put over $450 million in mobile companies across nearly 40 companies. http://dlvr.it/31tTvP @suryaray
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The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — spent a beautiful Bay Area day chatting amiably about Android, Apple, and the GUI formerly known as the Lock Screen. With notifications becoming the default interaction point with email, social, and app inputs, the Gang is split down the middle. On one side is @scobleizer and @jtaschek and partially @kevinmarks; on the other more correct side is @kteare and me, @stevegillmor. We think Apple has the more elegant if slightly hamstrung solution, while the rest are Android fanboys waiting desperately for the latest Samsung phone. And of course, @scobleizer sees everything through his forthcoming Glassware, or as he joked, being a Glasshole about it. Oh, the humanity. http://dlvr.it/31s9VY @suryaray
#SuryaRay #Surya While I’m sure there’s some scientific reason for demonstrating how the quadrupedal Big Dog can pick up and throw cinder blocks across a workshop (“Ahem, urm, we’re showing how the mass of the brick has little or no direct effect on the quadruped’s center of gravity, allowing it to carry large objects in the field, ahrm.”), I think what we’re seeing here is the first example of a nascent new robotic sport, human tossing. http://dlvr.it/31b6DY @suryaray
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Excited for ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’? Us too. Check out these just-released photos of the Spidey suit for the upcoming film.
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Celebrity chef Michael Mina has certainly conquered the world of _haute_ cuisine. Through his Mina Group, he operates more than a dozen award-winning high end restaurants around the world, with his namesake eateries in San Francisco and Las Vegas regularly earning Michelin stars. But now he is setting out to conquer a different realm: The web. Along with his co-founder business partner Tanya Melillo, Mina has launched a startup called Cook Taste Eat that aims to be the online destination for all things food, ingredients, and recipes. http://dlvr.it/30wSGD @suryaray
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What if you could actually grasp the sword you pick up in a video game, or if surgeons could feel their robots hit bone? That’s the promise of the Tactilous glove which won this weekend’s Y Combinator Hardware Hackathon. Watch as we demo the Frankenstein meets Nintendo contraption that lets you touch objects in virtual reality. http://dlvr.it/30wS82 @suryaray
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Ladies have it easy. We have our bottomless Mary Poppins’ bags to keep our gadgets safe, but what’s the alternative for guys? Unless you have the confidence to pull off a murse, one Serbian company has a solution.
WTFShirt is a button down, plaid top specially designed for smartphones. The shirt has two front pockets that are iPhone 5 compatible but can carry any device with similar dimensions. Check out the video, above, for more.
A headphone holder inside the collar lets wearers connect their earpiece to the phone through a gap in the pockets, which means no more fumbling and tangling. When your screen gets too dirty, a small, hidden cloth on the inside of the shirt lets you clean…
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Postwire, the startup aiming to disrupt content sharing on a business level, launched out of Disrupt last year in May, and has since undergone nearly three redesigns. This may appear, to the surface observer, as a lack of focus or certainty, yet as Postwire grows its user base in various verticals, rapid iteration allows them to put important tools and tricks in the forefront, while pushing any confusing queues to the background. On one side, marketers are organizing content in Postwire to share with salespeople who can then carry it on to their prospects. Because of this, one Postwire user can rally their entire network, from creative marketers all the way to sales, to get on the Postwire wagon. This has accounted for major growth at Postwire. http://dlvr.it/30mtKy @suryaray
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Social video producers just got a powerful new tool. Switchcam Director is a web app that automatically synchronizes footage of an event from multiple cameras and turns it into one tidy interactive video.
The idea caught the attention of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who invested in the company and also serves as an advisor to the creative team. Coming out of a private beta phase, Switchcam released its new app to the public early Monday morning.
“We’re aiding in the creation of video, that’s something that YouTube doesn’t do — especially multi-camera creation,” Switchcam CEO Brett Welch tells _Mashable_. “We can select footage from hundreds of different people. We automatically…
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A calendar is a tool created many millennia ago, a tool that is vital to our very functionality as intelligent beings. Yet, when technology has ventured far beyond a simple grid of numbers, the Calendar applications we use haven’t seemed to evolve beyond that. Sunrise, a new application built by ex-foursquare engineers, finds a way to turn a traditionally consumptive tool (the calendar) into a to-do list of sorts, not unlike the way Mailbox turns the inbox into a to-do list. In this episode of Fly or Die, John and I both agree that the beautiful yet simple UI is clearly superior to the standard iOS Calendar app. http://dlvr.it/30K7z0 @suryaray
#SuryaRay #Surya It’s time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven days and talk about a few of the week’s most interesting stories. http://dlvr.it/30H3bp @suryaray
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Some of the best conversations I have about the tech space are with investors — along with being rich and generally smart, they seem to have the best predictive insights into the industry. At a time when the Chinese seem to be making very real attacks to our cyber infrastructure, when legislation could make or break the evolution of the television industry, and when Google Glass stands to store more lifestyle data than any other computer in existence, I thought it only fitting to bring on a DC-based investor, John Backus, to chat out the latest news. John Backus is a managing partner at New Atlantic Ventures, and before that, he overlapped at Bain Capital with none other than one Mitt Romney. But John has had his eye on the needle of the tech industry for decades, and offered some interesting opinions of what we can expect to see in 2013 and beyond. http://dlvr.it/30GN43 @suryaray
#SuryaRay #Surya The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor — went bicoastal with @stevegillmor at @borthwick’s Betaworks Studios in New York City. @scobleizer and @jtaschek held down the West Coast as it threatened to float away in Googlemania. With a touch Chromebook and a Google Glasses video surfacing, at least half the Gang is predicting Apple is in trouble. Certainly the Googlers get network while a Tim Cooked Apple gets supply chain, but who’s to say (Scoble) that the fun ride is over for ownership of innovation. I think not, fascinated as I am with the amazing platform being nurtured around the iPad Mini and what it augurs for Apple’s move to the streaming cloud. http://dlvr.it/305M0V @suryaray
#SuryaRay #Surya While I hate using Buzzfeed-stype headlines, this video warrants the hyperbole. We’re all familiar with the magic of quadcopters - they can fly in formation, roll around obstacles, and even interact with each other. This video demo, however, takes the cake. These little fellows are flying in formation while balancing a reverse pendulum. They’re essentially doing baton tricks in mid-air. http://dlvr.it/2zrWTR @suryaray
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BoxTV, Times Internet’s online streaming video service, doesn’t just want to become the Netflix of India—it also sees itself as an Indian film discovery platform for viewers in other countries. It is now available for all viewers after its limited launch in September. http://dlvr.it/2zjWSV @suryaray
