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Ten Teen Entrepreneurs To Watch

Ten Teen Entrepreneurs To Watch

Kids these days. It seems like they’re writing HTML before they learn how to talk [...more]

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Insure.com Sells For $16 Million

Insure.com Sells For $16 Million

We recently wrote about dominance of number of .com domains and also noted that .com domain registrations were starting to turn around again after a poor 2008. It looks like values of .com domains may be rising as well [...more]

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Android Gets Its Own Everything Search Box

Android Gets Its Own Everything Search Box

We wrote about Google’s Quick Search Box (QSB) a few months ago when the product was officially launched. We found the Twitter plug-in particularly interesting because QSB was able to turn into a Twitter app that let you post Tweets from the search box itself. Now, Google is launching a version of QSB for the Android Phone which provides similar functionality from the phone’s home screen. [...more]

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Paul Kedrosky: Why I Love Venture Capitalists

Paul Kedrosky: Why I Love Venture Capitalists

I (Michael Arrington) recently had a conversation with venture capitalist and tech pundit Paul Kedrosky about all the criticism being heaped on venture capitalists these days ( much of it here on TechCrunch). He has a slightly different view than some others on what VCs are supposed to be doing, and how well they’re doing it [...more]

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J.D. Power Calls Apple Best In Consumer/Business Smartphones, LG Best In Feature Phones

J.D. Power Calls Apple Best In Consumer/Business Smartphones, LG Best In Feature Phones

According to a J.D. Power study, Apple has been named number one in consumer satisfaction in the consumer and business smartphone market while LG is number one in the traditional feature phone market. First, a bit of explanation of terms [...more]

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Motionbox Acquires Fellow Video Sharing Site Viddyou

Motionbox Acquires Fellow Video Sharing Site Viddyou

YouTube alternative and video sharing site Motionbox has acquired competitor and fellow video site Viddyou for an undisclosed amount. Motionbox, which raised $6 million in funding earlier this year, is similar to YouTube in that it allows users to upload and share their videos on the web, but it includes a more in-depth suite of privacy settings that make it better suited for sharing clips with a select group of friends rather than the whole world. Motionbox also got a boost from AOL, which recommended Motionbox to as an replacement for its Video Uploads service, which was shut down last November. [...more]

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K: Y’all sent 740 billion text messages in the first half of 2009

K: Y’all sent 740 billion text messages in the first half of 2009

So CTIA does this little survey twice a year just to measure how well (or poor) the wireless industry is doing. [...more]

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Rumor: BlackBerry Onyx to be announced October 21?

Rumor: BlackBerry Onyx to be announced October 21?

Well, well. What do we have here? Apparently, Engadget has it on “good authority” that the BlackBerry Bold successor, aka Bold 2 / Onyx (it’s not clear which name will hit the streets, but either way it’s the 9700), will be announced on October 21…for AT&T and T-Mobile. [...more]

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U.S. Senate: It’s cool to jam cell phones in prisons

U.S. Senate: It’s cool to jam cell phones in prisons

Oh, U.S. Senate. Just when we thought you had turned your collective attention to the plethora of incredibly important issues to tackle (read: healthcare, 2 wars, global warming, education, etc), you go and pass the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009. [...more]

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Cable Boxes And Their Fisher Price Remotes Are Junk. Demand Better.

Cable Boxes And Their Fisher Price Remotes Are Junk. Demand Better.

About a year ago, I had enough. I was so sick of putting up with Comcast’s ridiculous rates for terrible service that I decided to cancel everything but the Internet. [...more]

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