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13 hrs ago | AdPulp

To Be Invisible, Or Not To Be

People are scrambling to figure out what the harrowing economic collapse means to them.

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Related Topix: Startups, Marketing, Public Relations

Yesterday | Techdirt

Patent Lawsuit Silly Season: TechCrunch Sued For Patent Infringement After Critical Blog Post

There are different levels of ridiculousness when it comes to patent lawsuits, with the lowest of the low being patent lawsuits based more on spite than on any legitimate claim.

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Related Topix: Startups

Thu Oct 09, 2008

Hypebot

Thursday's Music Briefing: Mufin, Fontana, Wine & Much More

New music fingerprinting and discovery site Mufin has opened in private beta and TechCrunch likes what it hears.

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Related Topix: Drink, Wine, Startups

San Jose Mercury News

Lawsuit targets Loopt and TechCrunch

Nobody ever accused the technology blog TechCrunch of practicing straight, just-the-facts journalism.

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Related Topix: Startups, Loopt, Blog News, Journalism, iPhone, Palo Alto, CA

Wed Oct 08, 2008

Digital Inspiration

Earthcomber Sues TechCruch Blog and Loopt for a Patent Infringementa

Illinois based Earthcomber has filed a suit in the US District Court against Loopt and the popular TechCrunch blog for 'patent infringement'. It seems that TechCrunch is part of the lawsuit because they have ...

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Related Topix: Startups

590ktie.townhall.com

Can You Digg It, Google?

Uh-oh, Google is unhinging its jaws again. TechCrunch is reporting that the world's leading search engine is closing in on a deal to acquire social-news website Digg for roughly $200 million.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software, Internet, Science / Technology, Microsoft, Opinion

Tue Oct 07, 2008

Bit-tech.net main Feed

Yahoo-AOL merger likely by month end

AOL is likely to become a Yahoo concern by the end of the month if rumours are true - although Time Warner will still own a third.

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Related Topix: Startups

Mon Oct 06, 2008

ValleyWag

Om Malik Arrington-proofs his blogs with $4.5 million funding [Blogging For Dollars]

The founder of the GigaOm blog network isn't one of those guys who just wants to write, write, write.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Alloy Ventures, Startups

Sun Oct 05, 2008

PalmAddicts

TechCrunch reports Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around.

"The most significant of these may come from Motorola. One of the original partners in the Open Handset Alliance behind the open-source mobile OS, Motorola already has 50 people on its Android team and is ...

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Related Topix: Startups

Fri Oct 03, 2008

The Blog Herald

B5media Revamps Pay Model, Bloggers Lose Money

Blog network b5media is revamping their pay scheme, and that means a lot less money for the bloggers.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Startups

Affiliate Program Tip Blog

Get Your RSS Feed on the Kindle

The Kindle , Amazon's wireless reading device, enables owners to read books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Startups

Thu Oct 02, 2008

Digital Inspiration

The Unnecessary Complex Design of Google Blogs Search

A somewhat disappointing fact about Google Blogs is that the site has been written purely in JavaScript so all you'll see is a blank page if you try opening Google Blogs Search in a browser that doesn't support ...

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Related Topix: Blog News, Startups

Wed Oct 01, 2008

NBR Newsroom

Private Bin: Google stock halving a glitch or something else?

Yesterday more than a few traders had heart palpitations when Google's stock price appeared to dissolve right on close of trading, falling to $US200 after opening at $396. So with four minutes of trading to go, ...

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Software

Loic Le Meur Blog

What's going on with Jason Calacanis emails posted then removed?

As you can see on the Techmeme post screenshot below both Silicon Alley and TechCrunch have posted Jason Calacanis' latest email about recession hitting startups, but it looks like they removed the posts, see ...

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Related Topix: Startups

Tue Sep 30, 2008

The Blog Herald

The Future of Blog Spam

When Steven Carrol of The Next Web admitted to using a content generation service known as Datapresser , reportedly after seeing it used by an unnamed author at TechCrunch, he seemed to indicate that it was the ...

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Related Topix: Startups, Blog News

Mon Sep 29, 2008

PR-inside.com

TechCrunch50 Honors StockMood.com With the Thomson Reuters Award for...

StockMood.com is a newly launched start-up venture that uses advanced artificial intelligence to analyze news stories, classify their sentiment, and then measure their potential impact on stock price direction.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Startups, Science, Computer Science, Emerging Technology, Venture Capital

Sun Sep 28, 2008

Wired

Free, Legal, and Online: Why Hulu Is the New Way to Watch TV

"To me, this is the way media always should have been," says Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.

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Related Topix: Startups, Santa Monica, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Blog News, Entertainment

Fri Sep 26, 2008

Austin American Statesman

TechCrunch and Moximity take back the night in Austin

The entry titled "TechCrunch and Moximity take back the night in Austin." Categories Archives TechCrunch and Moximity take back the night in Austin Friday, September 26, 2008, 12:05 PM Is this the new Austin ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Social Software, Startups, Austin, TX, Austin Metro, 2008 Presidential Election

Thu Sep 25, 2008

P2pnet.net

The Pirate Bay pirated.

Movies:- The Pirate Bay, long accused by the corporate entertainment cartels of pirating, seems to have been itself well and truly pirated, logo and all.

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Related Topix: Startups

Wed Sep 24, 2008

NAA.org Feed

Online Publishing Update, September 24, 2008

Congratulations to the Detroit Free Press and the San Jose Mercury News staffers who won News & Documentary Awards this week.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Internet, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Startups, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Blog News

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