Analyst: Expect a new Nintendo DS this year
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter agrees with some of the other predictions we heard this year: a new DS system is on the way.
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Hopefully the emergence of Cuil will help Google to improve
There is always room to think differently about search engines, and Cuil’s challenge to Google is far more productive than fretting about how search engines are changing our brains.
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Clickable Raises $14.5 Million More For Online Ad Management
Clickable, the web advertising management company that launched at TechCrunch40, has closed a $14.5 Million Series B round led by Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, and FirstMark Capital. The round brings Clickable’s total funding to $22.5 million, and comes only eight months after the company completed its $6 million two-part Series A round.Clickable offers [...]
Create Your Own Free SMS Campaign With Tagga
As one of the most popular forms of communication in the world, SMS has become a favorite channel for advertisers to reach out to their audience. Everywhere we go, billboards and TV shows try to convince us that we should “Text MAGIC to 9340″, with promises of goodies like free ringtones and coupon codes.Now [...]
Secrets in the Static
Around the world, a group of people are broadcasting encoded numbers to persons unknown. The question is why? How a small group of shortwave enthusiasts is trying to unravel the secrets of global espionage.
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Amazon Rents Out Its Checkout Cart
Amazon is outsourcing more of its Web-scale software. Yesterday, it beefed up its payment services with the launch of Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay. Other e-commerce sites can basically insert an Amazon Checkout cart on their sites and Amazon’s software will handle one-click ordering for anyone with an existing amazon account, [...]
Zorap Launches Drag-and-Drop Media Sharing, Conferencing
It may have an awful logo, but Zorap, a video conference and media sharing startup, has developed a browser plugin that makes sharing movies and pictures both simple and surprisingly fun. The Windows-only plugin is currently working on Ning and MySpace, with support for more social networks (and Macs) coming soon. If you’d [...]
Yahoo Exec Makes Yuil: Looks Like Cuil, With Better Results
It was only a matter of time. Cuil, the “massive” new search engine that was supposed to be able to keep up with Google, has just gotten its first knockoff. It’s Yuil, a Yahoo-powered mashup that looks almost exactly like Cuil. And, oddly enough, Yuil might actually work better than its much-hyped [...]
Vinecast picked “Podcast of the Week” on TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte
Big kudos to Brad Leclerc and Viki Babbles for their ongoing success with Vinecast. They just got a shout out from Amber Mac and Leo Laporte on their Net@Nite podcast.
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Labmeeting: A Social Network For Scientists
Scientists are not the most social people on the planet. Many of them would rather be holed up in their labs trying to make the next big discovery than hanging out on Facebook throwing virtual pies at each other (although there are exceptions). But what if they could organize their all their scientific [...]
Nokia Plunks Another $150 Million Into Venture Fund
Nokia doesn’t want to miss the next wave of mobile technologies so it is doubling down on its venture investment activities. The cell phone giant is putting another $150 million to work in Nokia Growth Partners, a fund in which it is the only limited partner. This brings the total capital in [...]
Yahoo to face shareholder wrath at annual meeting
Yahoo Inc.’s recent truce with investor Carl Icahn didn’t pacify many shareholders who remain on the war path heading into the Internet company’s annual meeting Friday.
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Goober Takes Shotgun Approach With IM Client
Goober is an instant messenger developed by a team of Germans now officially based in Delaware that’s going up against the big guys (Skype, MSN, ICQ, etc.) with a desktop client that overflows with features – some useful, some more superfluous.The cross-protocol Goober client (available for Windows and soon Mac and Linux as well) can [...]
Early termination fees ruled illegal
California judge rules major victory for consumers: cell phone contract early termination fees are illegal.
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Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube
Google has acquired Atherton, CA based startup Omnisio, the companies are announcing this afternoon. Omnisio, which is a Y Combinator company, first demo’d to us in early March 2008, and it launched later that month. The price is not being disclosed, but we hear the deal is all cash and is in the $15 [...]