SanDisk Sansa Shaker Review: You Know, For Kids
Don’t want your music-loving 8- to 11-year-old running around with an iPod? SanDisk targets “tweens” with its new Sansa Shake — a kid-friendly player that stores music on Secure Digital memory cards...
View ArticleCrunchDeals: SanDisk Sansa Shaker (1GB) for $14.99
Looking for an inexpensive MP3 player to use for working out, showing off to tourists, and/or other general merriment? Buy.com has the SanDisk Sansa Shaker for the low, low price of $14.99, which...
View ArticleMeet The Startups That Made It To The TC Disrupt Battlefield (SF 2011)
Below are the 29 startups that were chosen, out of roughly 650 applicants, to pitch their business ideas over the next few days at the Startup Battlefield competition during the TechCrunch Disrupt...
View ArticleShaker Aims To Turn Facebook Into A Night On The Town — Complete With...
Facebook is the social network. But it's still not really all that social. Yes, you chat here and "like" things there. But it's not the same as going out to a bar with a group of friends. Shaker, a new...
View ArticleThe 2011 Disrupt SF Battlefield Final Round Companies
We are two days into Disrupt SF, and 31 startups have battled in front of the judges and an audience of thousands to vie for the Disrupt Cup and $50,000. The caliber of the startups across the board...
View ArticleTechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield Semifinals: The Judges React
The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield semifinals started off in an unorthodox way, with moderator Paul Carr bringing on TechCrunch co-founder Mike Arrington to join tech celebrity judges Ron...
View ArticleAnd The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Is…Shaker
Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to...
View ArticleDisruptive Tendencies
Early on Day One of Disrupt SF, Silicon Valley legends Peter Thiel and Max Levchin came out on stage with a grim message of doom: "Innovation in the world today is somewhere between dire straits and...
View ArticleSix Must-Watch Backstage Videos From Disrupt Plus The Music (TCTV)
It's been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the Six...
View ArticleThis Is What Winning Feels Like, Shaker Edition
"'What?.' 'We made it to Disrupt,' Sarah said calmly. 'We screamed so hard we woke up the building.'" After the screaming ended, the Israel-based Shaker team ditched Burning Man plans for TechCrunch...
View ArticleMotorola Mobility’s Shaker Investment A Sign Of Mobile Virtual Clubs To Come
Shaker's certainly been keeping busy ever since they won our Disrupt competition back in September -- not only did they win our $50,000 check, the team also closed a $15 million Series A funding round...
View ArticleShaker’s 3D Meetup Spot To Rock North America At June 8th Launch With Live...
Shaker won TechCrunch Disrupt SF last year with its 3-D virtual nightclub built on top of Facebook, and June 8th it will finally launch in North America with the help of the music industry's Live...
View ArticleParty Rockin’ On Facebook: Disrupt Winner Shaker Hits North America With Club...
Sometimes you want to be out partying on a Friday night and simply can't muster the energy. It happens. But last year at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, a service launched that aimed to solve that...
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