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Catch Up With Some Of Last Year’s Big Crunchies Winners, More Tickets...
A year is a long time, especially in the technology world. But it’s almost Crunchies time again. The Crunchies are a mix of the MTV Music Awards and the Oscars…but for tech innovation. Basically, a...
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Behind The Scenes At The Crunchies, HyperCard And AppleTalk Play A Role In...
When you take your seat at the 2012 Crunchies Awards next month, (tickets on sale now!) look above the stage. You will see an acoustical canopy system made of 59 Plexiglas reflector panels controlled...
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The Crunchies Monkey Goes Shopping For Holiday Gifts (Also, Tickets Make...
As we all gear up for the holidays, everyone is scrambling to buy those last-minute gifts for friends and family. Even The Crunchies monkey. Where do monkeys shop, you ask? Well, we left that up to our...
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Announcing The 2012 Crunchies Finalists, Buy Your Tickets Now
So we’ve tabulated the nominations and the votes are in for the 2012 Crunchies. More than 600,000 nominations were calculated across 20 categories, and, along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat,...
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The Daily Show’s John Oliver To Host The Crunchies
It’s often said that the Crunchies are the Oscars of tech. It’s with great anticipation that we bring you the best of innovation in technology from the past year in an environment that’s fun and...
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Now With More Genius: GZA Will Join Us Onstage At The Crunchies
The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards promises to be the best yet. We’ve announced the finalists who are all excited to don their most formal hoodies and join us for tech’s big night. The Daily Show’s John...
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Be Part Of The Coolest Awards Show In The Start-Ups Ecosystem By Sponsoring...
Every year TechCrunch and our partners get together to celebrate innovation at the Crunchies. This year it’s in San Francisco on January 31, 2013. The event is a star-studded bacchanal featuring...
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Happiness Is This Gif Of Paul Graham “Making It Rain”
Here is a delightful gif of Y Combinator’s Paul Graham throwing what looks like $50 up in the air, “making it rain” as the kids would say. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, or Lil Wayne, here...
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You Have The Power To Choose Who Wins At The Crunchies, Vote Now And Buy Your...
The Crunchies are coming: We know who the finalists are, we know that John Oliver is hosting, and we know that GZA is a special guest. However, the most important thing about the 6th Annual Crunchies,...
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Imgur, Reddit’s Favorite Photo Hosting Site, Now Serves Up Over 3.6B...
There aren’t very many bootstrapped startups that can claim the kind of stats that the popular image-sharing service Imgur, which won the Best Bootstrapped Crunchies award last year, can claim. Last...
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Twitter’s Social Impact Can’t Be Measured, But It’s The Pulse Of The Planet
When you sit back and think about how far Twitter has come since it launched in 2006, its rise to glory is impressive. It’s difficult to make your way through a day without seeing a tweet referenced on...
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Watch The Crunchies 2012 Live!
It’s that time again, folks. The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards show is upon us, and it’s set to be the best event yet. We’re at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, again partnering with...
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Mars Curiosity Wins The 2012 Crunchie For “Best Technology Achievement”
Tonight, at the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards, the Mars Curiosity won for Best Technology Achievement. Because, you know, science is awesome. Presented by former Square COO Keith Rabois and VentureBeat’s...
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After A Triumphant App Store Return, Google Maps Wins The Crunchie For “Best...
After getting the boot as the default mapping application on iOS devices with the introduction of iOS 6, Google Maps returned to the App Store in December with a new look, new features, and it quickly...
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Chris Dixon Wins Crunchies 2012 “Angel Of The Year;” Peter Thiel Is Named “VC...
As you may know, TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat host the Crunchies award ceremony each year to celebrate the most compelling startups, Internet and technology innovations of the year. But we also...
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Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Takes “Founder Of The Year” At The 2012 Crunchies
This year’s Crunchies saw Instagram founder Kevin Systrom take top honors for the “Founder of the Year” category, which is likely a safe pick considering what his company accomplished in 2013. He...
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GitHub Wins The 2012 Crunchie For “Best Overall Startup”, May The Fork Be...
In case you weren’t sure that Silicon Valley had moved beyond from consumer web companies, take a look at the top five finalists for the best overall startup of 2012. Only one is even a purely consumer...
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Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: ‘We Used To Create Content Online. Now We Create...
Airbnb was one of the trailblazers of the sharing economy, and so, when CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky today accepted the award for best collaborative consumption service — the first time the category...
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Peter Thiel On His ‘Super-Futuristic’ Focus And The Chess Strategy Founders...
Peter Thiel, the tech industry magnate known among other things for co-founding PayPal and investing very early in Facebook, took home the VC of the Year award at the 6th annual Crunchies this week...
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SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung On Building A Startup With An International...
All too often, tech startup founders feel like they have to move their headquarters to an industry hub such as the San Francisco Bay Area in order to really be successful. But while it’s good to be in...
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