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By Sarah Buhr StubHub Music is now live in the App Store and available to all major U.S. cities. The app, created by ticket reseller platform StubHub, was first tested on a much smaller set of music fans in just San Francisco earlier this summer. It’s now available throughout the U.S., the UK and Canada.…

By Kim-Mai Cutler Five to ten years ago, the notion of a super-angel, or an angel backed with a reasonable but small-sized fund, was relatively new concept. There were players like Aydin Senkut, Jeff Clavier and Dave McClure. There were tussles over what super-angels could offer versus more established venture capitalists. But today, the line…

By Colleen Taylor Welcome back to TechCrunch Cribs, the show that lets you snoop around the offices of the tech industry’s hottest companies. This is an especially fun episode, since we headed over to Yelp, the super popular online review site. These are some exciting times for Yelp: The company just celebrated its 10th birthday,…

By Greg Kumparak Hey, you! Want to explore the surface of Mars? No problem! All we need is a few billion dollars, a couple hundred of the world’s brightest minds, and for someone to get around to solving that pesky “massive levels of radiation” problem. On second thought, that might take a while. Until then,…

By Si Shen Editor’s note: Si Shen is the co-founder & CEO of PapayaMobile, the Beijing-based mobile company that operates AppFlood, the largest global mobile RTB ad network out of China. Before Papaya, Si worked on Google’s mobile team in the U.S. and China. This has been a whirlwind year for Chinese tech companies. Alibaba…