Bottlenose is a web-based smart social media dashboard that, in many ways, directly competes with Hootsuite and Tweetdeck .

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Social Media Dashboard Bottlenose Gets Smarter, Adds Support For Multiple Accounts, Facebook Pages

Just yesterday, I finally moved the Google+ iPhone app atrocity to the back screen of my iPhone, and then the company goes out and does this . It makes the darned thing all pretty with a fresh update. And maybe even more usable?

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Google’s iPhone App Gets An Overhaul Before Android? Strange.

Samsung Electronics has acquired mobile entertainment startup mSpot , according to a release issued today. Financial terms were not disclosed, but previous reports point to an acquisition price of $8.8 million. mSpot let users stream and watch full-length movies on their mobile phones and on the web .

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Samsung Acquires Mobile Entertainment And Music Streaming Startup mSpot

People deal with the pain of online hotel search is different ways. For many, it means spending hours and hours of research spread across dozens of browsers tabs.

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Cheezburger Creator Launches SimpleHoney To Find Hotels You’ll Love

Google today announced its latest update for Google Maps for Android with support for Google Offers.

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Google Quietly Launches Groupon Now-Like Free Google Offers Across The U.S.

We’re thrilled to announce that two of President Obama’s technology gurus, Todd Park , the US Chief Technology Officer, and Steven VanRoekel , its Chief Information Officer, will be joining us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC  on Wednesday, May 23. Big Data has been all the rage this year, and the government is a massive stockpiler of lucrative datasets in energy, health, and range of other fields. As former Silicon Valley brethren, Park and VanRoekel want to open up the floodgates on the government’s data warehouse in a way that’s useful to savvy entrepreneurs and the nascent “civic startup” industry (think Code for America ).

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President Obama’s Tech Gurus Are Coming To TechCrunch Disrupt

Simple (formerly known as BankSimple), the startup with $13.1 million in funding to build a better banking experience for customers, has today introduced its first  mobile application , surprisingly ahead of its public launch. Operating in private beta/invite-only mode for now, co-founder Joshua Reich says that anyone with a Simple account can now use the app, which had been limited to TestFlight distributions since its private launch last November

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Simple Rolls Out iPhone App, But Still No Word On Public Launch

So first things first: We’re not being sold ! Instead, we’ve just hired a bunch of brilliant writers and a new COO . Also, we have seen a resurgence of community support (with over a thousand people attending our NYC meetup last night , for example), are back at around 12% on the much-lauded  Techmeme leaderboard  and are gearing up for our NYC Disrupt conference. Our traffic is up with regards to unique visits year over year and we are working on getting our pageviews up to pre-awful redesign levels. More importantly, we cheer stuff like “TechCrunch fuck yeah” all the time in our company Yammer, which for us is a better indicator of progress than all of the above.

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Google just launched an update for Google Maps for Android that brings three interesting new features to the app: integration with Google Offers, support for Google Business Photos and indoor walking directions.

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Google Maps For Android Gets Google Offers, Business Photos & Indoor Walking Directions

Good morning everybody! It’s beginning to look a lot like NYC Disrupt time (seriously, Disrupt is a force of nature in more ways than one). For those of you wondering why we haven’t been returning email/phone calls/telegrams/carrier pigeons, TechCrunch Disrupt NYC is happening in two weeks, starting May 21st and going through the 23rd, preceded by our Redbull-ified Hackathon. We promised you a great show and that is exactly what we are going to give you; First and foremost bringing (some of) the band back together, with our illustrious founder Michael Arrington and former colleagues MG Siegler and Jason Kincaid also taking the stage

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Disrupt NYC 2012: The Agenda