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Ten Years Later, A “Third” Google Founder Comes Out Of The Woodwork
Just as Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary, a man claiming to be the “third” founder of Google has come out to stake his claim to history. In the video above, a man calling himself Hubert Chang claims…
September 23 2008, 7:07pm | Comments
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Google Chrome Comic Books Fetch $3,175 For Charity
Great news - we decided to give Google Chrome comic books to the top two bidders (with their permission) in our auction for charity. Those bids, for $1,600 and $1,575, respectively, will be donated to Donors Choose, an…
September 23 2008, 6:56am | Comments
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Jay Adelson Hints That Facebook Connect Is the Future of Digg
A few select partner sites are beginning to roll out their integration with Facebook’s ID system through Facebook Connect. Last week, a CBS site was the first one to do so, and more are expected to go live…
September 22 2008, 4:21pm | Comments
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Music On microSD: I Can’t Believe The Labels Fell For This
Forget buying an album on a USB stick, SanDisk just convinced the big labels to release (DRM free, thankfully) music on a 1 GB 15mm x 11mm x 1mm microSD card. And then they convinced Best Buy and…
September 22 2008, 10:31am | Comments
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Palingate? - Agents Swoop On A Tennessee College Dorm Linked To Palin Hacker’s IP Address
Hack into - and then publish - the email account of a major politician, especially one under Secret Service protection and currently running for Vice President, and you had better cover your tracks. Well. WBIR is among those…
September 22 2008, 9:38am | Comments
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We’ve been covering Boston-based Swaptree since mid 2006. The company, which is creating a network of users who swap books, CDs, DVDs and video games, just raised a third round of financing - $3.3 million from Safeguard Scientifics.…
September 22 2008, 9:15am | Comments
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That Was Fun, But Now Ebay’s Selling StumbleUpon
In May 2007 eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for $75 million. Now, less than a year and a half later, they’re trying to unload it according to a source with knowledge of the sale process. eBay has…
September 19 2008, 6:30am | Comments
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LinkedIn To Launch Its Own Ad Network
At a time when most social networks are still trying to figure out how to make money from advertising, one social network is bucking the trend. LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals, has so much demand from…
September 14 2008, 5:21pm | Comments
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1 Million RSS Readers: Thank You, TechCrunch Readers
Sometime last week, in the middle of the TechCrunch50 conference, we reached an awesome milestone - over 1 million average daily readers to our RSS feed. It took us just under 39 months to get to this point,…
September 13 2008, 9:02pm | Comments
