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TechSheep (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Fever Pitch: It’s Droid Day, Enjoy The Moment. — If you are a tech lover, there is nothing quite like the launch day of a much hyped new gadget. Expectations run high. And since those expectations are rarely satisfied once you have the special little device in hand, it’s a moment [...]
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch ! Yes folks it's our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Holiday party, in one handy package. This year we're taking a different tack - basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We've seen the emergence of Twitter, Facebook, Friendfieed and Google Wave but it's clear that...
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Voices (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
So the inevitable "offers are scams" story finally blew on to the scene last week at the Virtual Goods Summit when TechCrunch's Michael Arrington attacked OfferPal's Anu Shukla for having misleading offers (e.g. sign up for Netflix, get 10,000 coinz) as a core part of her business.
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Friendship Cybet Net (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Here's a report mixed with a cold hard fact and some wild speculation. We'll start with the factual bit: despite promises of an August unveil and November availability, and despite lots of leaks over the summertime, Michael Arrington's CrunchPad MID tablet thing still isn't upon us, and on top of that we haven't heard a thing about it in months. The wild speculation relates to the question of why,...
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Thoughts from the Sidelines (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s first dive into the gadget business may end up badly after his budget tablet, the CrunchPad has been hit by higher-than-expected costs and delayed. The project which started as a “dead simple” web tablet was initially supposed to cost close to $200, but after seeing a ...
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KIJO (Free subscription) | yesterday
Facebook ad scamming is on the rise, unsurprising for a site gaining a huge user base—what is surprising, if the allegation proves true, is Facebook's complicity in allowing the dodgy ads. Tech Crunch 's Michael Arrington believes that Facebook is looking the other way because it doesn't want to lose the revenue. He points out popular game Farmville: "it took me about 10 seconds to find...
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Mark Pincus Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
michael arrington posted a clip today of a bar-side chat I did with Berkeley entrepreneurs in which I stressed how we were laser focused from the beginning on finding revenue opportunities that would scale. The primary reason I pointed to...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture has gone global and I’m researching how R&D has globalized. It never ceases to amaze...
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Department Stores,
Entertainment,
India,
Internet,
Music,
Rajasthan,
Rap and Hip-Hop,
Santiago,
Snoop Dogg,
Web 2.0
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate — “While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peek at how investigators...
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Internet,
McAfee,
Michael Arrington,
MMORPG, MMOG and MMO,
Pirate Bay,
Software,
Software and services,
Video Games,
Video Games Industry,
World of Warcraft
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Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The New York Times yesterday published a news story on the large profits being made in virtual goods without referring to the controversies that have rocked the sector this week. In the article: Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays companies such as Playfish, Zynga, and games such as Farmville are mentioned. But there is no mention at all of the scandal that has rocked the virtual goods sector...
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Econsultancy blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The social gaming lead-gen controversy sparked by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington came to an end this week when OfferPal, the company he singled out for scamming users and advertsers, replaced its CEO and posted a mea culpa for its past and current practices. Beyond that, Facebook, MySpace and mega gamer Zynga have made moves this week to better regulate gaming offers. Will the move decimate the social...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It's becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I'm guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about everything we need: photo-editing, widgets, logos, buttons, and yes, fonts as...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won't support third party apps. But it most certainly does...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Last week, Apple release its new 3.0 software for the Apple TV. Unfortunately, it looks like it came with a pretty big bug in tow: Disappearing content. Here's the problem in Apple's words: There is an issue with Apple TV software version 3.0 that can possibly cause your content to disappear after a period of time. All customers running Apple TV software version 3.0 should immediately restart their...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Earlier this week the domain name industry was rocked by a shill bidding scandal at SnapNames . The company made the right early moves by admitting the problem and promising refunds, plus interest, to customers. Now, though, they are forcing customers to release them from liability to get the refund. We think this this is a mistake. SnapNames acquires expiring domain names from registries and then...
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