Last December, Postmates launched with the plan to offer up a courier delivery service for local businesses throughout San Francisco. But then the team had a brilliant idea: What if it gave its couriers pre-paid debit cards, which would let them purchase goods for customers and then deliver them anywhere in the city?

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Postmates Get It Now Users Spend $100+ A Month — At Least In Month One

Editor’s note: Guest author  Keith Teare  is General Partner at his incubator  Archimedes Labs  and CEO of just.me . He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Follow him on Twitter @kteare

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Mobile – Facebook And Google Can’t Live With It And They Can’t Live Without It

“The minute you tell someone that images on your server disappear, everyone jumps to sexting.” Evan Spiegel laughed and leaned back into his chair during his first sitdown interview since his iPhone app Snapchat blew up over the last month. Snapchat  is #12 on the free iOS photo app charts in the U.S. and  just scored some mainstream media attention in The New York Times . Plus, we hear that Snapchat has also impressed Facebook’s internal product leadership and even Zuck himself

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No, Snapchat Isn’t About Sexting, Says Co-Founder Evan Spiegel

The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — turned off their minds, relaxed, and floated downstream on the push notification inbox of tomorrow.

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Gillmor Gang: Tomorrow Never Knows

If your response to virtual infrastructure installations is a derisive “Boring, Sidney, booring” then maybe AngelPad startup ElasticBox isn’t for you. However, if you love cloud computing like Nancy loved heroin, I think you may be in luck.

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Never Mind The Servers: AngelPad Start-Up ElasticBox Makes It Easy To Set Up Web Apps

Last year, nearly half a million completed Dropbox ‘s very first “Dropquest.” This time, designer Jon Ying and engineer Rajeev Nayak say they “honestly don’t know” how many people will participate, but with the company’s rapid growth , it’s a safe bet that the number will be bigger.

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Dropbox Kicks Off Its Bigger, More Difficult “Dropquest” Scavenger Hunt Today

As we approach the E3, the electronic gaming show in early June, I suspect that the value of “retina” high-resolution displays will soon become apparent. While the prospect of retina Macbooks is all but inevitable, we have reached a plateau when it comes to general computing and, more important, living room media.

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Begun, The Retina Wars Have

In the watch world the Meccanico dG watch is a bit of a legend.

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The Weekend Watch: de Grisogono Meccanico dG Watch Hands-On

One year ago I wrote an article called “ Why The New Guy Can’t Code ,” about how the industry-standard process for hiring software engineers is broken, shortsighted, and counterproductive.

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No Shortcuts, No Mercy: The Bloodsport Of Recruitment

Editor’s note:   James Altucher  is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written ten books. His latest books are I Was Blind But Now I See and 40 Alternatives to College .  You can follow him on Twitter  @jaltucher

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