TechCrunch redesign
The blog launches its redesign. Arrington:
We are particularly focused on speed and efficiency. Pages should load much more quickly now than they have, and content should be much easier for our writers to create and publish.
He says the redesign began before the AOL acquisition and has been a ‘big project’.
Circle Inc. Series A
Gur leads the round that includes Arrington, Conway, Andreessen Horowitz, and others for $1 million for the location-based app, which alerts people when someone in their circles is nearby.
Starts Disrupt
Arrington and Calacanis announce the conference, which is designed to allow startups to demonstrate their product for free.
Jason and I are going to do something a lot different than the pay-to-demo model. The TechCrunch20 conference will be a two day event, held this fall (more details soon), where twenty hot startups will demo their new products—and they don’t pay a dime to do this.