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Mark Suster Talks Founder CEOs, The Acqui-Hire Frenzy, And Much More [TCTV]

Mark Suster of Los Angeles' GRP Partners is known for his unique insights on the tech and digital media worlds, having famously had success on "both sides of the table" as a repeat entrepreneur turned investor over nearly two decades in the industry.

Confronting The Reality Of US Broadband Performance

Editor's note: Richard Bennett is a Senior Fellow with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and co-author of ITIF"s 2013 report, "The Whole Picture: Where America"s Broadband Networks Really Stand.

David Karp's Dilemma

As the Tumblr/Yahoo deal continues to be negotiated by press, and the world gears up for whatever is being announced Monday morning, Tumblr founder David Karp is probably having a very interesting weekend.

Backed Or Whacked: Reading And Writing Through Crowdfunding

Editor"s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive.

The Future Of Mobile-Social Could Spell The End For Social Networks

Editor's note:  Keith Teare is the founder of just.me and a partner at Archimedes Labs. He is also the co-founder of TechCrunch.

This was a momentous week for those of us who are watching the rapid transition that is taking place from desktop computing to mobile.

How Hike, India's Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The Big Boys

It"s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users.

Hell No, Tumblr Users Won't Go To Yahoo!

We’ve all by now heard about how Yahoo is trying to get some “cool” with a supposed $1 billion purchase of hip blogging platform Tumblr, but it may be a moot point if Tumblr’s users fail to stick around post-sale.

What Games Are: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Xbox?

With Xbox 360 having started well but ended in a very confused state, I worry that Microsoft is about to carry over much of its baggage to the new console.

CrunchWeek: Google I/O Madness And Square's New iPad Hardware For Merchants

It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days.

I/Overload?

Did Google's conference succeed? It launched dozens of products in its 205-minute keynote, but did the world understand them? I saw some of the smartest journalists in technology struggling to handle the information density.