Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt , some of New York City’s most notable investors and entrepreneurs took the stage to talk about New York City’s seed funding situation. The title of Startup Mecca still clearly belongs to Silicon Valley, but as panel moderator Erick Schonfeld noted, the number of startups making their way to the Big Apple is on the rise and dealflow in New York is quickly heating up. The conversation touched on quite a few subjects, including what kind of companies tend to do best in New York

Entertainment media company BUZZMEDIA (formerly known as Buzznet) has just announced the addition of 6 music sites to its ever-growing list of properties , namely PureVolume , PopMatters , Gorilla vs. Bear , The Hype Machine , Concrete Loop and RCRD LBL .

Earlier this month, we reported that Yahoo’s Director of Geo Engineering, Gary Gale , was the latest to leave the company. He declined to say where he was going at the time (except to say that it wasn’t Google), but how he has. In a blog post today, Gale has announced that he’ll be the Director of Ovi Places for Nokia.

Let’s clear the air right away: The Evo 4G isn’t the second coming. It’s not the iPhone slayer. It might not even be the best Android phone available to date

Facebook introduced more features for users to easily increase the privacy of their personal information , last week, following prolonged criticism of changes it made in April. Despite those moves, it is getting new scrutiny around the changes. US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers sent a letter to the company on Friday asking it to provide more details on what it has been doing to ensure user privacy

Something that I loved about TechCrunch Disrupt last week is that the top two startups that launched in the competition weren’t from the U.S. – winner Soluto is based in Israel, and runner up UJAM is a German startup. In our previous events we had lots of non-U.S.

Siguler Guff & Company , a US-based private equity firm with over $8.5 billion of assets under management, is investing $250 million in a high-tech hub outside Moscow that is often referred to as Russia’s ‘answer to Silicon Valley’, according to various reports . Siguler Guff, owner of a subsidiary called Russia Partners , has made the investment public right after a visit to innovation center Skolkovo

Frases Diarias continues its streak on this week’s list of fastest-growing apps on Facebook by monthly active users. The Spanish language phrase-of-the-day app has done incredibly well, considering that it now has about 6.5 million MAU — more than 10 percent of what’s probably a native-language Spanish speaking population of more than 60 million people on Facebook

Apple has just announced that sales of its tablet computer iPad have now topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. That’s a whole lot of iPads in under two months, and the company only started shipping units to customers in countries outside the United States last weekend. The news comes almost a month after Apple announced that it had sold 1 million units

On June 11, it will be exactly five years since Michael Arrington hit the ‘Publish’ button and introduced the Interwebz to the very first TechCrunch post (which was a brief profile of blog search engine Technorati , which Mike apparently labeled a real-time search engine at the time – what’s old is new again, right?).