Local Q&A startup Hipster has raised $1 million in seed funding from some prominent angel Valley investors including Mitch Kapor , Dave McClure/500 Startups , Lightbank , Google Ventures , Charles River Ventures , Max Ventilla , TechStars David Cohen and David Tisch , Google’s Don Dodge , Paige Craig , Ludlow Ventures ,  Lerer Ventures and others. Many of you best know Hipster as the startup that launched a thousand blog posts, having insane hype and a couple of acquisition offers before its SXSW launch

Ashton Kutcher will be on stage next week at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. The actor, entrepreneur and investor will talk with Charlie Rose on Tuesday morning, and joins what is clearly our most impressive list of speakers at any TechCrunch event to date. His talk with Rose will be entirely focused on his new job starring in CBS’s Two and a half Men

In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon , Hashable founder and CEO Michael Yavonditte delves into the conventional (lack of) wisdom, power plays and power players that helped shape paid search as we know it today.

Chinese internet giant Tencent and U.S. travel bookings company Expedia have invested in Chinese travel site eLong , totaling $126 million

Despite the fact that some specs have already been leaked, we got a chance to get hands-on with the latest Think product from Lenovo and thought it was only fair that you get the complete story, too. Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 was officially announced today, and if you’ve seen the “Perfect Marriage of Form and Function” commercial, I can honestly tell you that it’s no exaggeration of the truth.

Users take the stage this week as we look at how brands are reaching out to customers on Facebook. Corona & MTV put the prizes in the hands of users, asking them to name their dream experience while Nook asked users to share why they love reading. Rue La La asked users to vote on the merchandise they wanted to buy on the company’s website

Users take the stage this week as we look at how brands are reaching out to customers on Facebook. Corona & MTV put the prizes in the hands of users, asking them to name their dream experience while Nook asked users to share why they love reading.

Users take the stage this week as we look at how brands are reaching out to customers on Facebook. Corona & MTV put the prizes in the hands of users, asking them to name their dream experience while Nook asked users to share why they love reading

There were a few interesting new additions to the usual Turkish video applications on our list of top growing apps by monthly active users this week, including the Vevo music video app and Zoosk dating app.

There were a few interesting new additions to the usual Turkish video applications on our list of top growing apps by monthly active users this week, including the Vevo music video app and Zoosk dating app. Apps on our list grew from between 243,000 and 1.8 million MAU during the past week