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Startup Job Site Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relauches As Startuply

New Y Combinator startup Startuply launches today. It’s a free job listing service aimed squarely at small startups, which have a lot of trouble getting the attention of new engineering graduates over the noise of the brand recognition and recr

Posted: Jul. 20, 2008 03:19 AM

Tesla Motors Unveils Jaw-Dropping Menlo Park Showroom

Tesla Motors, the automobile startup with backers that include Sergey Brin and Larry Page, held a party tonight to mark the launch of its Menlo Park storefront. The store, which is the company’s second, will be open to the general public begin

Posted: Jul. 19, 2008 11:42 PM

Finalist In McDonalds/MySpace Jingle Contest Is Former McDonalds Armed Robber

Well, here’s something that’s so ridiculous it couldn’t be made up. McDonald’s teamed up with MySpace to create a new jingle for the 40th anniversary of the Big Mac. The original song (two all beef patties, special sauce, lett

Posted: Jul. 19, 2008 08:17 PM

Pressflip Is A Belly Flop

Pressflip is a new blog search engine (it’s actually a relaunch of a site called Persai, which launched earlier this year). The idea is you do a search, train the engine by telling it which results aren’t interesting to you, and then wai

Posted: Jul. 19, 2008 04:36 PM

Edopter Attempts Social Trendcasting Through Crowdsourcing And Internet Buzz

Edopter is a unique concept that attempts to combine crowd-sourcing with internet buzz to predict new trends. It’s called “social trendcasting.” The way it works, is by allowing users to generate “trends” according to w

Posted: Jul. 19, 2008 03:47 PM

VC Deals In Charts (Q2 2008)Exits? We Dont Need No Stinkin Exits?

Second quarter data is out on venture deals from the National Venture Capital Association and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Despite the IPO market drying up completely, the What-Me-Worry crowd on Sand Hill Road keep pumping money into venture deals at a s

Posted: Jul. 19, 2008 08:22 AM

Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ

Facebook is starting to pursue social networks that have copied their design or features by suing German site StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook filed a suit in the California Supreme Court against the German company for what it

Posted: Jul. 19, 2008 12:25 AM

This Week on TechCrunch Elevator Pitches

A few weeks back we launched Elevator Pitches, our community video project that allows entrepreneurs to pitch their startups through 60 second YouTube videos. Since then we’ve received a number of pitches covering everything from a fandom porta

Posted: Jul. 18, 2008 10:29 PM

Mint Adds Support For Mortgage And Loan Tracking

Mint, the popular personal finance site that won TechCrunch 40, has further expanded its services by introducing support for mortgage and loan tracking. Users will now be able to keep tabs on their loans from over 1,000 supported institutions. In

Posted: Jul. 18, 2008 09:31 PM

Greystripe Monetizing iPhone Games With Ad Platform

The current iPhone App Store revenue share model - a 70/30 split for the sale of apps, generally in the $0.99-$9.99 range - doesn’t exactly reward developers for producing addictive games. Greystripe, an advertising network for mobile games, h

Posted: Jul. 18, 2008 08:54 PM

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