03/28/2002
Facebook Q&A Service 'Questions' Begins Rolling Out, Could Be Massive
Facebook's worst-kept secret is finally ready for its closeup: the company is starting to roll out Facebook Questions, a Q&A service that allows users to poll all of Facebook. Facebook has been inviting users to apply to join a sneak ...
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02/26/2002
Twitter Begins Testing Inline Photos And Videos On Its Website
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04/29/2002
Google's Mobile Search Market Share: An Estimated, Whopping 98.29%
How's this for absolutely dominating an increasingly lucrative and fast-growing segment? Google currently boasts a mobile search market share of 98.29%, with it closest competitor Yahoo taking up just over 0.8% of market share and ...
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02/27/2002
Amazon Now Taps Into Facebook For Social Product Recommendations
It appears that Amazon has rolled out a new social feature integrating Facebook into your recommendations. If you go your recommendations, Using Facebook Connect, Amazon will now serve you social recommendations based on information in ...
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04/29/2002
Google Introduces Location-Aware Mobile Display Ads
Google's mobile ads are becoming more location-aware. Today, Google is introducing mobile display ads for both the iPhone and Android phones which can be geo-targeted. Advertisers will be able to check a.
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03/28/2002
Safari 5.0.1 Lands, Comes With Extensions
Fresh off the heels of launching a slew of new products yesterday, Apple this morning debuted Safari 5.0.1, switching the flip on Safari Extensions and formally introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery, a directory of available ...
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04/29/2002
10% Of Applications In The App Store For iPad Boast In-App Purchases
App store analytics provider Distimo in its latest report once again focuses on in-app purchases across a variety of mobile application stores, Apple's App Store in particular. According to Distimo, the percentage of applications with ...
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03/29/2002
Facebook To Pay $10 Million Cash For Hot Potato, Says Source
We broke the news yesterday on Facebook's most recent acquisition - social activity service Hot Potato. Like most of Facebook's acquisitions, this deal looks to be mostly about getting a great team of engineers on board, not about the ...
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04/28/2002
YouTube Boosts Maximum Upload Limit To 15 Minutes
For years, YouTube has allowed its users to upload however many videos they wanted, but with a catch: unless you were part of one of YouTube's special partner programs, no video could be more than 10 minutes in length.
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03/29/2002
Facebook Closing In On Acquiring Check-In Service Hot Potato
We're hearing from sources close to the deal that Facebook is in late stage negotiations to buy Hot Potato, the social activity service. The deal is not yet finalized from what we're hearing, but could be at any moment.
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04/28/2002
Facebook Celebrates People's Birthdays In A Special Way: “F*ck You ...
TechCrunch reader Saul Lustgarten checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message, reading.
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03/29/2002
Android Takes A New Approach To Fighting Piracy With Licensing Service
Pirates looking to illegally copy Android applications are about to face a new challenge: today, Google's Android team announced that it is releasing a new application Licensing Service for Android. The service, which is meant to help ...
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04/28/2002
Fox News: Apple Is The New Religion And The Pope Is Scared
Jesus. Maybe literally. Fox News has a long and illustrious history of saying some fairly outrageous things. A story today on FoxNews.com may be one of the best yet -- certainly from a tech perspective. The post entitled.
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02/26/2002
Apple's Magic Trackpad Signals The End Of The Mouse Era
Easily the most interesting thing Apple unveiled today is the new Magic Trackpad. Essentially, it's a larger version of the trackpads that ship with each MacBook and MacBook Pro. But it's a stand-alone product, meant to be used with ...
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02/25/2002
After 6 Years, Apple Laying 30-Inch Display To Rest. New 27-Inch ...
As you may have heard by now, Apple unveiled a whole range on new products today from new iMacs to new Mac Pros to a new Magic Trackpad product. Alongside those, Apple also unveiled a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display.
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03/29/2002
Turn Your Blog Into An iPad Native With PadPressed
Created by Jason Baptiste, PadPressed is a Wordpress plugin that makes any Wordpress blog look like a native iPad app when accessed from iPad. Bestowing upon your humble blog the iPad features we've come to know and love such as.
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10/29/2001
Disney About To Acquire Playdom
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03/30/2002
Eric Schmidt: The World Doesn't Need A Copy Of The Same Thing
By this point everyone and their mother knows that Google is trying to make a Facebook-type social networking service. It's been confirmed by Quora's Adam D' Angelo, given an ETA by a source internal to Google, and a name,
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02/26/2002
Playdom Acquired By Disney For Up To $763.2 Million
Disney has acquired social gaming startup Playdom, confirming our story from last week. The price - $563.2 million plus an earn-out of up to $200 million. Playdom's last round of financing valued the company at $345 million, ...
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10/30/2001
Firefox Just Perfected Tabbed Browsing. It's Like Apple's Expose ...
If you're anything like me, at any given time you have a dozen to two dozen tabs open across multiple web browser windows. It's great to have all these webpages open and ready to click on at any second, but it's a nightmare to try and ...
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05/29/2002
Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project
Hewlett-Packard has killed off its much ballyhooed Windows 7 tablet computer, says a source who's been briefed on the matter. The device was first unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at CES 2010 in January and was supposed to hit ...
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01/29/2002
Delta's SkyClub Site Reimagined To Be Less Barf Bag Worthy
The airline industry is pretty much the worst offender in terms of being amenable to change, hence the large user experience holes filled by market distruptors like Virgin America, JetBlue, and Southwest. Aside from cloning Richard ...
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04/29/2002
Bezos On iPad: “You are not going to improve Hemingway by adding ...
Amazon's Kindle has always been an interesting device to me. When I first heard about it in late 2007, I was sure I wouldn't want one. It was awkward looking and at $399, way too expensive. But when the second iteration came in 2009 ...
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03/30/2002
RIM Buys “BlackPad.com”, Presumably As A Home For The BlackBerry ...
Unless someone at Research In Motion is taking the time to screw with all of us, it looks like we might have an official name for their long-rumored BlackBerry tablet project: BlackPad. Word of the name comes not from a disgruntled ...
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04/29/2002
Jeff Bezos Discusses The Future Of The Kindle With Charlie Rose ...
Last night, Amazon unveiled the latest edition of the Kindle, which sports a better screen, slimmer profile, and — most important — a relatively affordable $139 pricetag for a Wifi only version (the 3G version still goes for $189).
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03/30/2002
Source: Microsoft Bing Taking Over iPhone Search
Microsoft Bing will replace Google in the next version of the iPhone operating system to be released in June, we've heard from mulitple sources, including a high level source who claims to have been briefed on the matter. ...
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04/27/2002
In April, Apple Ditched Google And Skyhook In Favor Of Its Own ...
As you're undoubtedly aware, location is one of the hottest fields out there right now. Startups, services, devices, and advertisers are all hovering around it. As you're also likely well aware, Apple likes to be in control of their own ...
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03/29/2002
Kanye West Finally Has A F*cking Twitter
Last May, Kanye West was pissed off. Why? Because people were impersonating him on Twitter. He was so mad that he even wrote a blog post about it -- entirely in CAPS. It began,
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04/28/2002
Hacker Proves Facebook's Public Data Is Public
Security specialist Ron Bowes has once again proven how easy it is to glean valuable user information from Facebook, by spidering Facebook's online directory and compiling it all into one neat little torrent that could be downloaded off ...
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03/30/2002
HBO Sinks Its Teeth Into GetGlue To Reward Fans For Checking-In To ...
Forget about checking-in to venues. Apparently, the new thing to do is to check-in to whatever you're doing -- like watching television shows, or reading a book. It's something that Hot Potato offers, and they're in the process of being ...
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02/27/2002
37signals Buys Campfire iPhone App Ember
Collaboration software developer 37signals has bought Ember, an iPhone app for Campfire, according to a blog post. on the company's site. 37signals develops Campfire, which is a popular real-time group chat tool used by developers and ...
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01/29/2002
Some Tech Behind Inception And Avatar Becomes A Reality On Your ...
Several years ago, it seems like just about everyone saw the film Titanic. This past year, it seems the same was true for Avatar. And this past Summer, it seems as if everyone is seeing Inception. All three films share something in ...
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01/30/2002
Not Only Is Google Places Going After Yelp, They're Doing So With ...
Earlier today, we noted that an update to Google Maps for Mobile was the clearest sign yet of Google going directly after Yelp. But it's actually even more interesting than we thought. Key to the new Google Maps for Mobile is Places, ...
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03/30/2002
Twitter Begins User Streams Testing. Realtime Tech Should Help ...
For some time now, Twitter has been working on a new API: the Twitter Streaming API. The idea behind it is to allow third-party Twitter clients to receive continuous tweet updates in realtime. As developer advocate Taylor Singletary ...
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04/29/2002
Lost In Val Sinestra: A Mesmerizing Movie Trailer Featuring Your ...
Double rainbow awesome. There's no other modern way to describe this. I won't spoil it too much, but whatever you do today, visit this website and select some of your closest friends from your Facebook graph when prompted.
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10/30/2000
Google Secretly Invested $100+ Million In Zynga, Preparing To ...
Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we've confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars ...
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02/27/2002
Is Punch Google's Swing At Microsoft Publisher?
There's a new mystery on the web today. In an otherwise boring video about.
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04/29/2002
So Is The iPhone An “iPhone Killer” Killer?
This morning, Reuters published this article. On their site, it seems fairly innocuous, with the title.
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03/29/2002
Short Notice: PayPal Removes Electronic Withdrawal Option For ...
PayPal, the eBay-owned electronic payments company, continues to run into operational issues in India. Earlier this year, the company had to suspend personal payment transactions from and to India, albeit temporarily, when the Reserve ...
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01/29/2002
Pulse Is Now Alive And Kicking On Android
Back in May, we first wrote about Pulse, an innovative and pretty news reading app for the iPad created by a couple of Stanford grads. Just about a month later, it hit for the iPhone as well. Today, they're wasting little time ...
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03/29/2002
The Mouse Is Dead. I Just Killed It. Now Can We Move On?
This morning when I wrote a post about Apple's new Magic Trackpad, I knew it would be a little controversial. After all, I basically said that it was the beginning of the end of the mouse -- a device that everyone reading the post ...
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03/28/2002
Review: Dell Streak
Short Version If Charlie the Unicorn has taught us anything it's that the road to success is fraught with setbacks and, if you're not careful, your best friends will cut out your kidneys. It is with these life-lessons in mind that we ...
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02/25/2002
Stieg Larsson Is The First Author To Reach One Million Books Sold ...
The only Larsson I've ever heard of is Henrik Larsson, so clearly I'm out of the loop with regards to this Stieg Larsson fellow. The Swedish author has become the first author to sell one million copies of his book(s) on the Amazon ...
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04/27/2002
Zynga Confirms Softbank Investment. They'll Confirm Google ...
Zynga issued a press release tonight confirming the more than month-old news of an investment by Softbank - $150 million - and are announcing a joint venture to.
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04/29/2002
Elon Musk Sat Down With Stephen Colbert, Talked Tesla, SpaceX And ...
Elon Musk certainly hasn't been on the down-low lately. Well, with the Tesla's IPO and then Toyota huge investment and manufacturing deals. Then there's the lawsuits and his devoice. So yeah, it's no wonder that Jon Favreau modeled his ...
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10/29/2001
Darth Vader Calls Apple About His iPhone 4 Antenna [Video]
Regardless of what you think about the whole iPhone 4 antenna debate, there's no denying that it's fueling a massive amount of creativity on the Internet. We've got the iPhone 4 antenna song (which Apple even played at its press ...
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02/27/2002
Yahoo: comScore Underreported Our U.S. Page Views By 1 Billion ...
Yahoo just put out a press release calling out comScore for seriously underreporting the site's US page views and duration metrics in its June report. Yahoo says an error skewed the numbers in the June 2010 publication pretty badly ...
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03/28/2002
Nick Bilton Lives In A Future Where There Are No iBooks (Video)
The future, as William Gibson once said, is already here. It is just unevenly distributed. You can find the future in new technologies and the people who wade into them early on—people like Nick Bilton, the chief blogger for the New ...
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03/30/2002
As Mobile Advertising Heats Up, Millennial Media Prepares For An ...
Mobile advertising is currently a billion dollar market and we've witnessed tech giants like Google and Apple move into the space with the acquisitions of mobile ad networks AdMob and Quattro Wireless, respectively.
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04/28/2002
Motorola Shipped 2.7 Million Smartphones Last Quarter, Phone Sales ...
Motorola has just announced its financial results for Q2 2010, reporting total sales of $5.4 billion, which is slightly below what it recorded in the same period last year. Earnings came in at $162 million or $0.07 per share, ...
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03/29/2002
Looks Like Even Google Forgot Knol Existed
Knol, Google's platform for sharing articles about specific topics, appears to have been shutdown. It's unclear if this is a temporary or permanent situation. We've reached out to Google for comment. We've long been speculating as to ...
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01/30/2002
Porsche Revving Up All-Electric Sports Car
The electric sports car scene is heating up with Porsche's confirmation of a new all-electric sports car based on its Boxster. The company is conducting daily tests of three research cars to study battery systems and electric drive ...
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12/28/2001
NSFW: Sorry AirBnB Hipsters, I'll Take Health and Safety Over the ...
Get out of the way, old man! You're being Disrupted! Screw you, newspapers: blogs are stealing your readers and Craigslist is pillaging your revenue! Take that publishers: Andrew Wiley doesn't need you and your stupid dead trees!
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04/28/2002
Copia Plans Low-Cost 7″ And 10″ Tablets As Well As E-Ink Devices
Just a couple hours ago, news broke of the $99 Copia Wave5 e-reader, or tablet, or whatever you want to call a 5.
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01/29/2002
GM To Announce Chevy Volt Pricing Tomorrow
The Chevy Volt is slowly and surely creeping towards dealers and GM is set to unveil the price tomorrow. At 12:00 pm ET Joel Ewanick, VP of US marketing, will make the announcement at the Plug-In 2010 Conference in San Jose, California.
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03/30/2002
Google Rolls Out Android's New Anti-Piracy Mechanism
If we're hearing any one thing from developers that is scaring'em away from Android, it's that Android apps are just way, way too easy to pirate. Hell, you don't even have to go through shady third party download sites; just buy an app, ...
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04/29/2002
Why Do People Want The Kindle To Be The iPad? They're Two ...
Amazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn't look too shabby at all. The most important part is the inclusion of the next-generation E-Ink display, previously only found in the too-big-for-casual-use Kindle DX.
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03/29/2002
Adobe Buys Swiss Company Day Software For $240 Million
Adobe is strengthening its product portfolio with its intention to acquire Swiss firm Day Software, which makes Web content management systems aimed at marketers. Adobe announced an all-cash tender offer for Day's shares.
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02/26/2002
Nissan Sprouts Leaf Rollout Plans
Nissan's Leaf is almost ready to be picked. The company announced its all-electric car will be available to buy as early as December, but only for those in California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Tennessee.
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01/30/2002
Google Launches 'Apps For Government', With Servers On US Soil
This morning at a special press event in Mountain View, Google announced Google Apps for Government, a new version of Google's suite of cloud-based enterprise applications that have been hardened to meet the government's more stringent ...
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04/27/2002
Researchers: Android Wallpaper App Shows “No Evidence Of Malicious ...
Yesterday, mobile security firm Lookout announced at the Black Hat security conference that it had discovered a seemingly benign wallpaper application for Android that had been downloaded millions of times — and allegedly harvested user ...
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09/27/2001
AT&T Reports 3.2 Million iPhone Activations In Q2 2010
AT&T has released its second quarter earnings earlier this morning, reporting an increase in consolidated revenues and improved margins. What caught my eye is this little nugget of information: the carrier activated 3.2 million iPhones ...
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04/28/2002
Five Reasons You Want To Come To The Social Currency CrunchUp Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Friday, is our fifth annual yearly blowout party at August Capital - the event I look forward to all year. Tickets to that event are long gone, but a handful are left for the all day conference we hold prior to the party, ...
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03/28/2002
More People, And Inevitably Scammers, Are Using Twitter
2010 thus far has been a year of milestones in terms of online population, with Facebook hitting 500 million active users and Twitter reaching 100 million users. This growth explosion is not without its dark side; a rising tide lifts ...
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04/28/2002
'Facebook Hacker': All I Did Was Compile Publicly Available ...
All I've done is compile public information into a nice format for statistical analysis.” So says the man who is being called the Facebook hacker. Ron Bowes, a security consultant who's also an nmap developer, is under fire from certain ...
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02/25/2002
Microsoft Releases Power Counter for Green Consumers
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04/29/2002
Amazon Reveals New Kindle: $139 For Wi-Fi Version, $189 for 3G
Amazon today unveiled the new Kindle e-reader, though it was not personally revealed by Bezos, as we heard rumored. The new device has a 6.
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11/28/2001
Pinning Down Zynga's Revenues Is Like Playing Pin The Tail On The ...
One of the most exciting things to watch in tech these days is various groups' estimates for Zynga's revenues. Depending on what you read and on what day, they are all over the map. It's been that way for a long time too, ...
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12/28/2001
GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects
GitHub, the source code hosting and collaboration service, has hit a major milestone tonight: the site is now hosting one million projects, confirmed Scott Chacon, VP of Research and Development at GitHub. Approximately 60 percent of ...
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04/28/2002
Lovefilm, the Netflix-of-Europe, signs deal with Widevine to beef ...
Lovefilm, the Netflix-of-Europe, looks set to beef up its multi-platform play via a newly signed agreement with DRM and adaptive streaming technology provider ...
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03/29/2002
Patent Trolling Doesn't Pay: Intellectual Ventures Shows A ...
You can always count on Hunch founder Chris Dixon for interesting Tweets. He just sent out this one: turns out patent trolling might not pay. Intellectual Ventures has negative 78% return.http://bit.ly/bSfamC The link is a PDf download ...
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03/30/2002
Mortgage Recommender Home-Account Acquired By Bills.com
Last year, we covered the launch of Home-Account, a mortgage search and counseling service. Though launched in the implosion of the housing market, the site raised funding from an impressive group of investors, including Charles River ...
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04/28/2002
Groupon Launches Deal Personalization, Opens Door To (More ...
Local deal goliath Groupon is launching a major new feature today: deal personalization, giving the site the ability to send you the deals it thinks you'll be most interested in. Before now, Groupon has always offered one or two deals ...
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04/28/2002
Postcards Go Virtual With SwingVine Gallery For The iPhone
People don't send postcards anymore. Why bother when you can photo MMS a friend? Attempting to restore some of the social experience behind photography. SwingVine has created SwingVine Gallery an app that attempts to bring back some of ...
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01/29/2001
Apple SVP Scott Forstall Just Signed Up For Twitter — But Why?
Everyone knows that Apple is an extremely secretive company. Some would say to a fault. But it seems to have served them well over the years. That's why it's not surprising at all to see that none of Apple's key executives use public ...
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06/28/2001
Kindle Books Outselling Hardcover Books. “Tipping Point” Reached ...
Amazon's Kindle eReader has long been a great device. Unfortunately, for much of its life, it has been far too expensive. And now with Apple's iPad out there, it seems a bit too, well, monochrome. But Amazon did a smart thing recently, ...
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02/27/2002
The Chevy Volt Is Now Officially On Sale For $41K MSRP Minus Up To ...
The Chevy Volt: $41000. GM finally went live with the second to last piece of the Chevy Volt puzzle and select dealers are ready to take orders with delivery expected.
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10/29/2001
CloudCanvas Launches HTML5 Image Creation And Editing Suite
CloudCanvas, a startup incubated in the Founder Institute, has launched their free HTML5 image editing suite to the public today. The product aims to blend capabilities of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop into a single, easy-to-use web ...
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03/30/2002
Vodafone has €150000 to spare for a pair of innovative mobile ...
Vodafone has launched Mobile Clicks 2010, a competition to identify and reward innovative mobile Internet startups. Now in its third year, the competition ...
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09/27/2001
FacePlant: An App To Tell You When You Can Actually Use FaceTime
If you have an iPhone 4, you've probably had this problem: you really want to use FaceTime, but there are simply not a lot of opportunities to use it. Sure, one problem is that both parties need an iPhone 4 currently.
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03/29/2002
Apple, Time, Inc. Fighting Over Ability To Sell Digital Subscriptions?
Time, Inc. and Apple are going through a rough patch. Time wants to be able to sell digital subscriptions of its properties, including Sports Illustrated, via the iTunes Store, but Apple won't let that happen. This puts Time in a weird ...
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02/27/2001
Want Swype? (yes, you do) – Get It Tomorrow For Android Phones
I just heard from Swype, the creators of an amazing touchscreen mobile application that allows text entry way faster than via normal virtual keyboards. They'll be making the Android version of the their application available to anyone ...
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01/29/2002
Yelp Gears Up To Take On Groupon, Starts Testing Local Deals
It looks like Yelp is looking to cash in on the local deal craze. As the folks over at deal aggregator YipIt first noticed, Yelp has recently been testing time-limited local deals in a select number of pilot cities.
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03/30/2002
Victory For Nintendo As R4 Cards Made Illegal In The UK
The importation, sale, or advertising of the R4 card, used to pirate Nintendo DS games, is now illegal in the UK. Defendants tried to argue that the R4 shouldn't be demonized, much less made illegal, because it can also be used to play ...
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02/27/2002
Apple's Innovative New… Battery Charger?
Apple unleashed a range of new and updated products earlier today -- everything from new Mac Pros to new iMacs to a new Magic Trackpad device. Lost in the shuffle was a tiny new product Apple also unveiled: the Apple Battery Charger.
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02/25/2002
Lookout Identifies Which iPhone And Android Apps Want Your ...
Lookout, a company that offers security data backup services for smartphones, is announcing the results of its App Genome Project, a continued effort to map and study mobile applications to identify security threats in the wild, ...
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02/27/2002
Apple On The Defensive: Jailbreaking Your iPhone May Be legal But ...
No idea how this will fly in court, but here we go. Apple says that jailbreaking your iPhone, while now as legal as can be, will still void your warranty. Besides, said Apple, the number of people who actually go to the trouble of ...
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03/30/2002
Could This Be the Eve Of the Kindle 3?
It seems that all Kindle orders have been frozen and, it seems, that Jeff Bezos is hanging around New York right now and will speak on Charlie Rose tonight. While I seriously doubt that Bezos will whip out the Kindle 3 on the Charlie ...
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02/26/2002
Xtreme Power Gets $29.5 million to Store More Power From Renewables
A Kyle, Texas company that makes utility scale power storage systems, Xtreme Power, nabbed a $29.5 million, series C round of venture funding the company announced today. The investment was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, ...
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02/25/2002
Chatroulette Calls The PoPo And Crosses Fingers In Hopes Of Investment
Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy recently posted this strange missive detailing Chatroulette's commitment to cleaning up its act. In battling the porn plague, Ternovskiy has resorted to tracking offending IP addresses and turning ...
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04/28/2001
Is Google at Risk of Becoming the Next Microsoft?
Editor's note: The following guest post is by author and former venture capitalist Peter Sims. In late April, JP Morgan invited me to a “thought leaders dinner” to discuss the latest goings on in Silicon Valley and digital media.
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12/29/2001
A Must Listen: The Steve Jobs Song [Video]
I thought I was a fanboy. I've got nothing on Jonathan Mann. Regular readers may recall that Mann is the guy behind the Bing jingle (which we didn't like - but students did, or were forced to), the song about me (which we did like), ...
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07/29/2001
Live From Google's Image Search Event
Today at a special press event in San Francisco, Google is showcasing some of the latest features that will be rolling out on its search engine. The event will be starting shortly, and from the decor it's clear that the focus of the ...
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09/29/2001
A New Version Of Google Chrome Now Due Every Six Weeks
With its Chrome web browser, Google has always been obsessed with speed. And now they're speeding up another aspect of it: how often stable builds are released. The goal now is to release a new stable version of the browser every six ...
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10/28/2001
BlackBerry Gets Its Own “Death Grip” App
techcrunch logo · About · Advertise · Archives · Contact · Events · Jobs · Trends. Subscribe: Attend the Friday July 30 Social Currency CrunchUp and Summer Party » · BlackBerry Gets Its Own “Death Grip” App. 47 Comments ...
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12/28/2001
ParkWhiz Is The OpenTable For Parking Spots
Finding parking in near concerts or sports events can be an incredibly frustrating task. Because of the event, the cost to park in lots near the stadium or venue can be exorbitant. Plus, lots can fill up fast.
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06/28/2001
Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews ...
One year ago, in July 2009, Tumblr was going strong. They had 255 million pageviews that month. By November of last year, that was up to 420 million pageviews. But some new stats which Tumblr is releasing today show an explosion in ...
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03/30/2002
Kanye West Raps About Getting Laid And Disses Twitter At Facebook ...
Facebook may be in the middle of negotiating a deal to acquire the check-in service Hot Potato, but that didn't stop most employees from stopping by the cafeteria at the headquarters in Palo Alto today to see hip hop artist Kanye West ...
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06/27/2001
Google Ventures-Backed Pixazza Raises $12 Million For Crowdsourced ...
Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed photo tagging service that has been compared to an “AdSense for Images,” has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Shasta Ventures, with Series A investors August Capital, CMEA Capital and ...
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12/29/1999
Breaking: Tapulous Acquired By Disney
Tapulous has been acquired by Disney. The iPhone gaming startup with several hits on its hands was founded by Bart Decrem, who will join Disney as a senior VP. COO Andrew Lacy is also joining Disney as a senior VP.
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