BankSimple Deposits $3.1 Million From First Round, Ron Conway, And Roger Ehrenberg

New York City begin BankSimple this day disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital , Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures , and Village Ventures , along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park, and Jerry Neumann. But it did not disclose how much it raised. I’ve confirmed that the round was $2.9 million, with an additional $190,000 raised last year in convertible debt (which converted to shares with ..read more

Sprint Epic 4G review: The Samsung Galaxy S grows a keyboard

We review the Sprint Epic 4G to find out if it’s worthy of its study ? If you place the word “Epic” in the study of your phone, it darn well better be epic.

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iPad Orchestra Proves Not All Industries Need To Be Disrupted

Meet the iPad Orchestra, brought to you by the brand spankin’ new to the iPad App Store Seline HD . While I usually hate to be the thorn in the side of progress, if this is what the future of classical music looks like then I would like no part.

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AOL Scoops Up Rally Up To Boost Their Mobile Team

AOL has just acquired Rally Up , the Santa Cruz-based mobile application company, we’ve learned. The 9-person team will become a part of AOL’s mobile group reporting to David Temkin , the new head of mobile. No word on the price, but we hear it was less than $10 million.

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The Other Half Of Search: Greplin Is A Personal Search Engine For Your Online Life

There’s always something cool coming out of Y Combinator, but even so Greplin stands out from the crowd.

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What If UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? Taxi Business Could (Finally) Get Some Disruption

If you live in San Francisco and you haven’t tried UberCab yet, do it. The service, which we first covered in July , eliminates everything bad about a taxi experience.

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If You’ve Got Social Media Fatigue, UR DOIN IT WRONG

Just as I was reading Paul Carr’s latest column about quitting social media, my husband looked at his phone and broke into a massive smile. He is a graphic designer and has long been a fan of Chank Fonts

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Google Voice Is A Hot Mess Right Now

I think I liked Google Voice better back when it was hard to get an invitation. Back then it worked most of the time, and the infrequent outages were tolerable given how useful the service is overall. But over the last week the service has become spotty at best, and unusable at times.

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Intel acquires Infineon’s Wireless Solutions Business For $1.4 billion

You know Infineon , right? They make those tiny baseband chips inside smartphones (like the iPhone 3G). You know, the chips responsible for communicating with the cell towers on your network.

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Phone Numbers Are Dead, They Just Don’t Know It Yet

Editor’s note : The following guest post is by Nikhyl Singhal , the co-founder and CEO of voice-application begin SayNow .

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