News Roundtable with Thomas Korte and Luke Beatty-TWiST #E352




This Week in Startups - Video show

Summary: Never miss an episode! Subscribe in iTunes: Audio (http://bit.ly/TwiStA) (http://bit.ly/TwiStA) || Video (http://bit.ly/TwiStV) (http://bit.ly/TwiStV) MailChimp Get up to 2,000 subscribers and send up to 12,000 emails per month for free with MailChimp. There's no contract, no trial, and the free plan is always free -- visit http://www.mailchimp.com (http://www.mailchimp.com). FOLLOW: http://twitter.com/mailchimp (http://twitter.com/mailchimp) The Resumator: Try The Resumator, the hiring solution used by today’s fastest growing startups. Start a free trial at http://theresumator.com/TWIST (http://theresumator.com/TWIST). FOLLOW: http://twitter.com/theresumator (http://twitter.com/theresumator) ========================== Big news this week from Google's IO event and Yahoo with its reported bid for Tumblr. Lucky us that we had ex-Googler Thomas Korte, founder of AngelPad, and ex-Yahoo exec Luke Beatty, now managing director of TechStars, on the program. We also discussed Andrew Mason's post-Groupon plans, Blackberry Messenger for Android and iOS, the US government cracking down on Bitcoin and more. ========================== Show our guests some love! Thomas Korte: http://twitter.com/thomask (http://twitter.com/thomask) http://angelpad.org (http://angelpad.org)DroneDeploy: http://www.dronedeploy.com/ (http://www.dronedeploy.com/) Google & AH investing $10.7M in drone co Airware Boxbee: https://boxbee.com/ (https://boxbee.com/)Winner LAUNCH Festival 2013 Luke Beatty: http://twitter.com/luke_beatty (http://twitter.com/luke_beatty) http://www.techstars.com/program/mentors/lbeatty/ (http://www.techstars.com/program/mentors/lbeatty/)   0:31 Hey everybody we have as Thomas Korte @thomask and Luke Beatty @luke_beatty on the show today! 9:30 News Story #1 Andrew Mason reveals post Groupon plans 10:00 Jason is featured on Andrew Mason’s new album 11:00 Thomas what do you think? 11:20 Luke you have experience similar to what Andrew is doing. How do you think Andrew Mason will do? 13:45 Jason wants to have Andrew on the show 14:24 News Story #2 Blackberry messenger comes to Android and iOS 16:30 What do you guys think about Blackberry making a run? 19:20 What do you think Luke? Will they win back the enterprise? 20:30 Is Apple making a huge blunder not doing cross platform for their apps? 22:00 Luke what do you think? 22:37 News Story #3 Yahoo reportedly talking to Tumblr 22:45 Who first reported on this? 23:10 Luke you sold a company to Yahoo, what do you think? 27:07 Will Zuckerburg throw his weight in the ring? Will it make him top guy in M&A business? 28:25 What do you think Luke? 29:45 Thank you to MailChimp!!! Powerful Email Marketing!! 32:22 News Story #4 Google I/O 33:51 Jason what are you most excited about? 34:10 Thomas are you worried that Google is getting too big and powerful? 36:10 Thomas weighs in on the music app, talks about audience.fm 37:40 Luke what do you think of the Google I/O, Glass, All Access? 38:30 Discussion on Google Glass 41:08 If you have a dinner party and 3 out of 5 people have Glass on, what do you do Luke? 41:55 Thomas do you ask them to take them off? 44:37 Thomas: What about GoPro? 48:19 News Story #5 Tactus Technology CTO interviewed by Scoble 50:40 What do you think of this Luke? 51:30 What do you think of this Thomas? 52:00 Discussion about potentials of this technology 55:30 What about startups developing apps for Glass, is that a waste, being too early? 56:40 Luke what do you think? 58:40 News Story #6 Department of Homeland Security shuts down bitcoin exchange with Mt. Gox 59:15 Luke what do you think? 1:00:33 Thomas do you have any Bitcoin people?   ============== Full Transcript Distribution provided by CloudSigma. The cloud that adapts to you. Visit CloudSigma.com/ThisWeekIn, for a free $200 credit.Today's episode of ThisWeekIn Startups is brought to you by MailChimp. Manage lists with up to 2,000 subscribers and send up to 12,000 emails per month, for free, with MailChimp.