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The Real Estate Marketing Insider named Floored as the winner of its Tech Breakthrough of the Week award. The announcement comes on the back of a recent news piece in TechCrunch which profiled a tech startup that generates 3D models of real estate properties. (PRWEB) May 04, 2013 The Real Estate Marketing Insider announced the winner of its Tech Breakthrough of the Week award, a title given to innovative and groundbreaking technology that impacts the real estate market. This week’s...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A Northern California court has just handed Facebook a victory in their fight to remove any domain names which may look or sound something like “Facebook.com.” Domain squatters – companies and individuals which buy lookalike and soundalike domains and never use them – have been sitting on these misspelled domains for years. Facebook will now gain access to more than 100 of these as well as $2.8 million in statutory damages....

Docurated is launching the first non-file-based, content-centric, search and curation solution for enterprise and consumers. NEW YORK, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Docurated, www.docurated.com, will be launching at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, on Tuesday, April 30, at 2:30pm, on the main stage at the Manhattan Center in New York, New York. Along with launching at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Docurated will be providing consumers with the ability to integrate their Dropbox items...

Attendees will be able to use the app to connect with others during the event. NEW YORK, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AppHere, the venue-based instant social network, is going to be showcased today (4/30) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, the event that combines top thought-leader discussions with new products and company launches. Throughout the application, already available for downloads at the Apple App Store, people can join an instant network based on where they are, and...

Feature Combines Artificial Intelligence with DIY for Expanded Creativity in the Art of Personal Movies NEW YORK, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Magisto -- creators of the easy-to-use automatic video editing solution that turns everyday videos and photos into movie magic--announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 the launch of Draw a Video, its latest creativity tool that allows users to add hand-drawn special effects to their personal video creations. For the first time,...

crowdfynd Co-Founders, Pinaki Saha and Jay Sebben, to Showcase Mobile-First Platform for Crowdsourcing Assistance with Lost & Found, Crime & Safety Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) April 28, 2013 One of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year, TechCrunch Disrupt, is scheduled to begin this Saturday in New York City. The Disrupt conference highlights the best up-and-coming early stage companies in the market today, and one Chicago-based start-up, crowdfynd, will be a...

Marks Myntra's Second International Acquisition in Four Months SAN FRANCISCO, April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Myntra, India's largest e-commerce platform for fashion and lifestyle products is expanding its technology expertise with the acquisition of San Francisco based FITIQUETTE, a TechCrunch Disrupt Finalist [http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/fitiquette-online-clothing-measurement-never-looked-so-good ] in part cash, part stock deal. FITIQUETTE's technology innovation aims at...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that  its $25 Model A computer is now available for purchase in the United States through the electronics reseller Allied Electronics. The model A is a ten dollar price cut from Raspberry Pi’s original Model B mini computer. While it doesn’t come close to rivaling Apple design standards, being essentially little more than a circuit board with a few basic hardware components attached, the...

Bliips showcases their business and professionals search experience at the Launch Festival in San Francisco, CA and the Techcrunch Disrupt conference in New York City, NY in preparation for their public launch on May 31, 2013. Cedar Park, Texas (PRWEB) March 22, 2013 Bliips Media, Inc. announced plans to move to the forefront of consumer search through the launch of their proprietary search engine API aggregation software technology at bliips.com. Bliips demonstrated their technology at...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online All those looking to share pictures and Internet memes or check out top government secrets yesterday were left wanting after the website accelerator CloudFare took a brief nosedive. After a change to CloudFare’s routers was rolled out early Sunday morning, these routers crashed, causing an outage of nearly an hour for the 785,000 websites they serve. Though the company constantly monitors their routers to avoid such an outage,...