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

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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.

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Thomas Korte:
http://twitter.com/thomask
http://angelpad.org
DroneDeploy: http://www.dronedeploy.com/
Google & AH investing $10.7M in drone co Airware
Boxbee: https://boxbee.com/
Winner LAUNCH Festival 2013

Luke Beatty:
http://twitter.com/luke_beatty
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?

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