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• Crunchies Tickets Go on Sale Today

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 770
  The first batch of 150 tickets for the third annual Crunchies awards ceremony — scheduled to be held on Jan. 8, 2010, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco — go on sale today starting at noon PST . As we reported yesterday , you can also now vote for your favorite tech finalists. We will once again be ...
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• Here are the Crunchies finalists; vote for your favorites

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  We’ve reached the exciting part of the Crunchies, the awards celebrating the year’s best achievements in technology — the part where you get to choose the winners.Readers already sent in tons of nominations, and a committee from the three co-hosting sites (that’s TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat) narrowed ...
  18 hours ago

• For All the Gloom Around RSS, Readers Continue to Climb

  
  louisgray.com — Authority: 632
  Skimming many of the leading technology outlets, you would think RSS had given up its ghost, making way for new services, like Twitter . Just this week, ReadWriteWeb claimed the RSS reader market was in "disarray" and continued a "decline". This came after a summer in which TechCrunch ITs Steve Gillmor declared RSS ...
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• Vote Now For the Crunchies Finalists

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 770
  The third annual Crunchies awards ceremony, scheduled to be held on Jan. 8, 2010, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, is fast approaching. As of now, you can vote for the finalists. We will once again be co-hosting the Crunchies awards, with VentureBeat and TechCrunch . You can find the photos from last ...
  21 hours ago

• Apple May Be on the Verge of Kneecapping the Cable Industry

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 646
  TechCrunch submits: By MG Siegler The cable companies suck. All of them. Some suck less than others. But they all suck. We need someone to whip them into shape. And that someone may be Apple ( AAPL ). Complete Story »
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• In 2009, Netbook Shipments Grew 103%, Revenues Up 72%

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 646
  TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters Industry research and analysis firm DisplaySearch estimates notebook PC revenues to top $109 billion in 2009, down almost 7% year over year. Complete Story »
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• There’s something about Google: The Countdown

  
  iWorld — Authority: 143
  Ladies & gentlemen, there’s something going on with the Google search page earlier today. If you were to go to google.com, and click the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with no query entered into the search bar, you will be presented with a countdown timer. Could this be the ubiquitous countdown to the new ...
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• Google’s 2009 Holiday Gift to Ad Partners: $20 Million to Charity

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 646
  TechCrunch submits: By MG Siegler Each year, Google ( GOOG ) sends out gifts to its users of its AdSense and AdWords products. Typically, these gifts are only given to the “high-rollers” on each in early December. But this year, these gifts were nowhere to be found , and it appears that today has ...
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• Yelp Walks Away From $550M Google Deal

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Late last week, it appeared Yelp and Google were close to a deal for Google to acquire the local reviews website. However, it seems Yelp has had second thoughts, as late Sunday TechCrunch, which first publicized the deal, reported that Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman personally walked away from the deal.
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• Yelp Backs Out of $550 Million Google Deal

  
  AppScout — Authority: 593
  Did Jeremy Stoppleman get cold feet? Apparently. The Yelp CEO has reportedly put the breaks on Googles attempt to buy his site. In its final stages, the purchase of the local search site was said to be in the neighborhood of $550 million plus earnouts.The deal was first reported at the end of last week. According to ...
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• Jajah to be acquired by Telefonica O2 for USD 200 million

  
  Wireless Federation — Authority: 148
  www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Jajah, a VoIP services provider, will be acquired by Telefonica O2 in USD 200 million deal. Earlier, Techcrunch reported in the beginning of November that Microsoft and Cisco Systems were also looking tobuy Jajah for a price ranging from USD 200 million to USD 400 million.Jajah ...
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• Last.fm - How do they stream all that data ?

  
  Startups And Communities @ Sun — Authority: 431
  Last.fm is a great case of a Sun Startup Essential customer starting off two years ago by discussing their architecture, and how could Sun help them as a startup, well two years down the line we have saved them money, reduced their output and helped them scale beyond boundaries they didnt think feasible, Mike Brodbelt ...
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• You Are Here: Geolocation is the Trend for 2010

  
  Max Gladwell — Authority: 106
  Social media provides real-time access to the who, what, and when. Geolocation now provides the “where” in real time. Web meet World; World meet Web. Geolocation will become a huge market in the coming years, much like social media itself. There are more than a dozen companies in the space already, and it ...
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• Paul Carr gives away e-book free on TechCrunch, tweaks European e-publisher Hachette

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Over on TechCrunch, Paul Carr has posted a piece called “NSFW: Free as in ‘my publisher will disown me after I pirate my book on TechCrunch’” . (“NSFW” seems to be the column name; the content of this particular column seems to be entirely SFW, with the possible exception of the word “whore”.) Carr ...
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• Three Key Twitter/Iranian Cyber Army Links

  
  IntelFusion — Authority: 513
  The Dec 17, 2009 event was a tempest in a teapot, but to save you time and trouble, here are 3 links that tell you everything you need to know about what happened, what didn’t happen, and what the take-away should be. If you want to know what happened, and how it happened, click here . If you want to know what ...
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• Ribbit Mobile Gets An iPhone App By Sticking To Voicemail

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 869
  Ever since Ribbit Mobile launched , I’ve been using it to forward my calls to Skype when I am at my computer and transcribe all of my voicemails, the text of which are then sent to me via email. It’s similar to Google Voice (which Mike uses ), except you can use your existing mobile number. So I was pretty ...
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• Time running out for the humble SMS as iPhone apps steal the show?

  
  etonDIGITAL — Authority: 109
  While reading a recent Techcrunch piece on Blipr (free iPhone app that enables messaging with other iPhone users), I couldn’t help but fear for the fate of the humble text message as we know it. If we can safely assume that handsets like iPhones are the future (surely in four or five years time they’ll be as ...
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• Bringing Nothing to the Party by Paul Carr

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 168
  Today Paul Carr, my favorite author on Tech Crunch, announced that he will make the pdf version of his latest book “Bringing Nothing to Party” available for free through a Creative Commons Read More......( read more )
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• How to prevent your own “Eurostar moment”

  
  London Calling the blog about all things social and mobile — Authority: 99
  No doubt many people around the world are aware that Eurostar passengers were subjected to some fairly uncomfortable experiences over the weekend as 5 Eurostar trains broke down as they entered the Channel Tunnel. The issue seems to be the rapid change of temperature a the trains entered the channel tunnel from the ...
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• Yahoo’s 2010 Turn-Around Strategy Revealed: A Cycling Team

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 646
  TechCrunch submits: By MG Siegler Oh, Yahoo ( YHOO ). Revenues are down . Search share is down . The social stuff has been outsourced to Facebook . The search stuff is about to be outsourced to Bing . Things are not exactly on the up and up. Not even just one “up.” But it would appear that Yahoo is ...
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