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Phin Upham, attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he won numerous awards for his research and served in leading community service roles. Phin edited a successful book titled Philosophers in Conversation in 2002 that was translated into Mandarin and sold in the US, Europe and China and has since edited two more. Phin has written a nationally syndicated newspaper column and had his work published in numerous scholarly journals.

Phin Upham works as an investor where he previously worked doing financial research and analysis for a bulge-bracket investment bank and most recently in macro-economic and technology investing at a leading hedge fund. Upham’s community service involvement has been extensive including serving as the youngest member of the Board of the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s Young Friends where he led major aspects of its community outreach in West Philadelphia and was responsible for all graduate student involvement in the Museum. He received his undergraduate degree with Honors from Harvard University. He is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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  • Weighing the Importance of Google's Waze Win June 18, 2013
    After months of courtship, social navigation app Waze ultimately chose to partner -- for $1 billion-plus -- with Google, rejecting Facebook and Apple. The price tag shows how valuable Waze has become, and that's to say nothing of the overtures it received from the world's tech giants. "I think what's really surprising is that Facebook all […]
    David Vranicar
  • Airmail Flies Into Sparrow's Email Space June 18, 2013
    Two schools of thought have begun to emerge about email. One says the technology has passed it prime and needs to be replaced by some kind of social networking technology along the lines of Facebook. The other maintains that email can be saved by better software, like Airmail. Airmail is being compared to Sparrow, a popular email client that became too popul […]
    John P. Mello Jr.
  • Tech-Hungry 'Crazy Ants'? Not So Fast June 17, 2013
    To read some reports in the tech press lately, one might think there's an electronics-hungry menace from South America on a march of conquest through the Southeastern United States and Texas, leaving a trail of destroyed smartphones and other precious devices in its wake. It's known as the "crazy ant," and recent reports of its arrival de […]
    Richard Adhikari
  • Google to Pit Technology Against Child Pornographers June 17, 2013
    Google is spearheading an initiative to build a picture-sharing database aimed at ridding the Web of child pornography. The company's new database will rely on "hashing" technology; once an image has been flagged as offensive, it uses an algorithm to identify that photo elsewhere on the Web. Despite widespread efforts to combat it, child porno […]
    Rachelle Dragani
  • Hackers Find WordPress Easy Pickings June 17, 2013
    Adobe Reader and Oracle Java aren't alone in having a bull's eye painted on their code. WordPress also is becoming a popular target for Internet outlaws. It's quite a large target, too. About 18 percent of the sites on the Web -- about 60 million of them -- use WordPress. One reason WordPress is attracting hacker attention is that it's so […]
    John P. Mello Jr.
  • Up, Up and Away: Google Balloons to Beam Internet Access June 17, 2013
    Regardless of how this turns out, at least they nailed the name. Google is launching about 30 superpressure balloons that will beam Internet access back to the ground. With equal parts brevity and self-deprecation, the effort has been dubbed "Project Loon." Taking flight from New Zealand, the balloons will sail around the world on a controlled path […]
    David Vranicar
  • Froguts Illuminates More Than a Frog's Insides June 17, 2013
    Dissecting frogs in high school biology classes used to be a rite of passage. It was a physical, visceral method for teaching kids that living organisms have common pieces and parts: organs, muscle, nerves and connective tissue. Kids learned that even frogs have hearts, lungs and brains. With a real dead frog, though, the lesson seems to be larger than just […]
    Chris Maxcer
  • Ending the US' Cyberwar Against Its Citizens June 17, 2013
    I'm into fixing problems -- in fact, for much of my life I've been employed as someone who is brought in to fix a difficult problem. I don't see much point in just complaining -- either try to fix it, ignore it, or move someplace where it doesn't affect you. The current problem is that the U.S. appears to be conducting a cyberwar against […]
    Rob Enderle
  • Pondering Life in a PRISM World June 17, 2013
    Not a single week goes by here in the Linux blogosphere without some assortment of news and events to keep life interesting. It's not often, however, that something comes along with the magnitude of PRISM. Linux Girl was comfortably ensconced on her favorite barstool when the news broke down at the Punchy Penguin Saloon, and it's been chaos ever si […]
    Katherine Noyes
  • It Was a Mad, Mad Gaming World at This Year's E3 June 15, 2013
    Another Electronic Entertainment Expo video game show has come to a close, and more than ever, the battle lines were drawn as Microsoft and Sony both unveiled new systems. Sony may have gotten the upper hand by announcing that its PlayStation 4 will be $100 cheaper than the Xbox One and free of restrictions on the buying and selling of used games, but a lot […]
    Peter Suciu

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  • TC Cribs: Quirky, The NYC Startup Where Unique Inventions Are Brought To Life June 18, 2013
    More and more jobs deal in the virtual realm, and are done by people sitting down at desks at computers. Desk work can be made interesting in its own ways, but it's always fun to visit a company that's actually making physical stuff. So for this episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we jetted over to New York City to check out the headquarters of Quirky, a […]
    Colleen Taylor
  • Google Fights Spying Gag Order, But Key Details Would Lack Even If Successful June 18, 2013
    As it promised it would, Google is fighting the government's gag order on releasing how many users are monitored by the National Security Agency. Unlike Facebook and Microsoft, Google and Twitter publicly rejected a government deal to disclose the total number of spying warrants for user data, which would include (but not detail) the number of requests […]
    Gregory Ferenstein
  • The Series A Round Is The New Series B Round June 18, 2013
    Editor's note: Jeff Jordan is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and is on the boards of Airbnb, Belly, Fab, Circle, Crowdtilt, Lookout and Pinterest, as well as Wealthfront and Zoosk. The venture industry is awash with talk of the “Series A Crunch.” In my short two-year tenure as a full-time investor, I’ve seen this crunch hit very hard at a number of qu […]
    Jeff Jordan
  • GameStick Android Console Ship Date Delayed Until August To Refine UI June 18, 2013
    Android home gaming consoles are nearly arriving for the consumer market, but one at least needs a little more time in the oven to bake. It's the GameStick, the super portable USB-stick style device that plugs into an open HDMI port on your TV to turn it into an Android-powered gaming machine, and its release schedule is being pushed back another month […]
    Darrell Etherington
  • The Offline Glass Ensures You Talk, Not Text, At The Bar June 18, 2013
    Tired of your friends texting on their phones while they should be getting schnockered? This clever hack is called the Offline Glass and it's designed to ensure that you and your friends don't sit at the bar checking Wikipedia for who starred in The Greatest American Hero and whether Tabitha will totally come out tonight oh my god she won't sh […]
    John Biggs
  • Adobe's Q2 Earnings Beat Street With $1.011B In Revenue, $0.36 EPS, 700K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers June 18, 2013
    Adobe just reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $1.011 billion and non-GAAP operating income of $247.3 for an earnings per share of $0.36 (though diluted GAAP earnings were only $0.15). That's a little bit better than most analysts expected, especially with respect to the company's earnings per […]
    Frederic Lardinois
  • Please Join Us For The 8th Annual August Capital Party: July 26 In Silicon Valley June 18, 2013
    It's that time of the year again for us nerds to infiltrate Sand Hill Road, let loose, and enjoy some good food and libations. We've been hosting the TechCrunch summer party with VC firm August Capital since 2006. This year, as in years past, we'll be partying on August Capital's beautiful, sunny Sand Hill balcony on Friday, July 26. The […]
    Leena Rao
  • Kazam Is Another European Startup Hoping Against Hope To Inch In To The Smartphone Hardware Market June 18, 2013
    Hardware is so hot right now. So hot, in fact, that another European hardware startup is formulating an attack on the smartphone hardware space -- joining the likes of Finland's Jolla and Spain's Geeksphone to have a go at handset making. The newest comer stepping in with a plan to shake up the "status quo" is called Kazam: a startup co-f […]
    Natasha Lomas
  • Weather Could Be Next On The Auction Block For Crowdsourced Data June 18, 2013
    Waze's big exit to Google proved one thing: if companies can harness the power of the crowd to deliver real-time, granular data, big tech corporations will be watching them closely as potential acquisition targets. There's another category ripe for the picking, even if the problem being solved isn't as apparent or immediately useful as traffic […]
    Darrell Etherington
  • Google Updates Local Search Results On Desktop With Carousel Design June 18, 2013
    At the end of last year, Google introduced a new design for some local search results on tablets that put a carousel with the top results at the top of the page. Today, it's bringing this design to the desktop, too. This new feature can be triggered by searches for restaurants, bars and other local places, Google says, and it's currently rolling ou […]
    Frederic Lardinois

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