Tech Crunch

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

  
  louisgray.com — Authority: 635
  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: 776
  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 ...
  8 hours ago

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

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 641
  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: 641
  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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• Google’s 2009 Holiday Gift to Ad Partners: $20 Million to Charity

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 641
  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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• Mobile Roadie And Random House Partner To Launch iPhone Apps For Authors (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

  
  Apple Secrets — Authority: 159
  Leena Rao / TechCrunch: Mobile Roadie And Random House Partner To Launch iPhone Apps For Authors   —  As the way consumers read books evolves, there is an opportunity for mobile technologies to connect consumers with their favorite reads.  Mobile Roadie, a startup that helps develops iPhone apps … Read ...
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• Yelp Backs Out of $550 Million Google Deal

  
  AppScout — Authority: 559
  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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• Paul Carr gives away e-book free on TechCrunch, tweaks European e-publisher Hachette

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 647
  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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• Ribbit Mobile Gets An iPhone App By Sticking To Voicemail

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 866
  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: 112
  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: 641
  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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• Growing Grumblings on Tech News Dont Address Incentives

  
  louisgray.com — Authority: 635
  If you are the subject of the news, people will judge your actions and how you react to being in the spotlight. If you are the distributor of the news, how you message that news, and how accurately you report that news, will also be dissected. On the Web, especially in our sliver of Silicon Valley, where real time is ...
  3 days ago

• Time, Facebook Connect, And Comments

  
  Netizen — Authority: 129
  Image via CrunchBase I just noticed now I can sign in with Facebook Connect and leave comments at the bottom of Time articles. This is quite a moment. This must be a new thing because I dont see too many comments. I must be one of the early ones. Time: Tiger Woods Sponsors: Will Any Stick by Him? Now I ...
  4 days ago

• Twitter Losing Trust

  
  One By One Media — Authority: 103
  I was going through my feeds last night and funneling all of my reads as I tend to do in the evenings and sharing some of what I found to be interesting to my community through Twitter.  This is becoming more and more of a habit with me as I tend to pour through a lot of data.  What I think might be of interest to ...
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• Monetize Your Twitter Assets- Publishers and Advertisers

  
  What is My Spin | Internet Marketing Blog — Authority: 112
  Image via Wikipedia I just discovered a new Toronto startup that is helping Twitter users monetize their Twitter feeds. Here is an interview with the founder of Assetize that I picked up from the Techvibes blog. “As many of you know, Toronto is a brewing with young tech companies. And with social media ...
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• Google and Yelp Would Make a Fine Match

  
  by Ron Miller — Authority: 116
  Image by idealisms via Flickr TechCrunch reports that Google is in advanced stage negotiations to purchase Yelp. These two companies are so well suited to each other, its a wonder talk of this deal didnt happen sooner. Read my full post on DaniWeb .
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• Four quick follow-ups

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 647
  Here are a few quick follow-ups to previous TeleRead stories: EtherPad source released Remember how I mentioned Google had bought EtherPad and was closing it down , then that it would stay up at least until it had been open-sourced? Google has just released the source. Right on, Google and EtherPad crew! ...
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• Google Wants to Gulp Yelp, as Part of a $1.5 Billion Shopping Spree

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 755
  Say this for Eric Schmidt–he’s keeping his word. This fall, the Google CEO said his company was getting back into M&A , and he has indeed been making a slew of deals at varying price points . The most recent: The company is in talks to purchase local review site Yelp , at a price that reportedly could ...
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