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- Entrepreneur Boy Band Cover Flow To Play Disrupt After Party
- Google Celebrates Their Last Pre-Teen Birthday With A Pretty Cake Logo
| Entrepreneur Boy Band Cover Flow To Play Disrupt After Party | Top |
| Many of you may know Blippy’s Philip Kaplan, but many of you may not know that Blippy’s Philip Kaplan (Drums) is in a boy band with Snapfish founder Raj Kapoor (Vocals/Gold pants), Investor Tim Chang (Bass), Facebook’s Ethan Beard (Guitar) and Prashant Fuloria (Guitar). If you didn’t know this fact and are just learning it now, don’t fret. There’s still opportunity to familiarize yourselves with the smooth stylings of entrepreneur side-project Cover Flow. The nerd fivesome met each other through “business” according to Kaplan, and mostly play songs from the ’80s and ’90s, with some Lady Gaga mixed in. Really. Kaplan tells TechCrunch that band’s pretty nervous about playing the Media Temple Disrupt Party tomorrow night at Manor West , especially when going up against the star power of MC Hammer at the Google Ventures/SV Angel party on Tuesday, in a battle to win over the ears, hearts and minds of Silicon Valley. “ The investors in the group keep trying to collude every time we get together to rehearse, but we’ve managed to run through the set a few times uninterrupted and it sounds great.” Perhaps the only band whose members correspond to Crunchbase profiles, here they are playing Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirt” below. | |
| Google Celebrates Their Last Pre-Teen Birthday With A Pretty Cake Logo | Top |
| The topic of Google’s birthday is always a little tricky. The company was incorporated on September 4, 1998, the first technical spec is from September 20, 1998, and the first employee was hired on September 21, 1998 (Craig Silverstein — a fellow grad student with Sergey and Larry at Stanford). And yet, the search giant seems to prefer to celebrate their birthday today, on September 27 (which it is on the East coast of the U.S. right now). Well, it’s their birthday, and they can celebrate when they want to — and that’s apparently exactly what they started doing in 2005 . And they are today with a new doodle logo by Wayne Thiebaud , an American painter often associated with the “Pop Art” movement. For Google’s 12th birthday today, he painted them a nice cake. For more history of Google (at least up to their tenth birthday) check out this page . As they approach their teenage years, the giant shows no signs of slowing down — quite literally. This year saw the launch of both “ Caffeine ” (their fresher, faster search results) and Google Instant . For much of their life, Google has basically dominated search, and their market share speaks to that. But Microsoft Bing has been proving to be a worthy competitor in recent years, so let’s hope puberty doesn’t make things awkward for Google. Happy birthday, Google . CrunchBase Information Google Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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