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Reddit gets an (unofficial) iPhone app
Since the App Store launched this past summer, its seemed a bit odd to me that none of the big social voting sites have launched iPhone apps. Sure, all work on the iPhones Safari web browser, and some, like Digg, are even optimized for it, but given how devoted some of those sites users are, it woul ...
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Blockbuster and Microsoft: Two peas not in an iPod
When I was growing up, if you heard the term movie rental, Blockbuster immediately sprung in your head. Thats not the case anymore. Thanks to Netflix, video on demand from the cable companies and an increasing number of options to rent films over the Internet, Blockbuster is increasingly being pushe ...
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Britney Spears and wrestling trounce Obama in Yahoo search rankings
President-elect Barack Obama has had an incredible year. However, according to Yahoos 2008 search rankings, Obamas history-making presidential bid still didnt attract as much attention among web browsers as pop star Britney Spears and World Wrestling Entertainment in the world of overall search term ...
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SellaBand takes its bands and fans live with ArenaWorks deal
SellaBand, an online platform that allows fans to contribute seed money to aspiring bands, has just taken its service to a whole new level. It announced today that it will partner with ArenaWorks Entertainment to take bands that are able to raise $10,000 in micropayments of $10, or rack up the most ...
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Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce
Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks. The San Francisco startup was the brainch ...
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Panasonic and Samsung invest in SiBEAM to promote WirelessHD
In an endorsement for wireless video networking, Panasonic and Samsung said today they have invested an undisclosed amount into SiBEAM, the maker of high-speed networking chips. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SiBEAM makes WirelessHD chips that can wirelessly transfer video from one device to another in a l ...
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The Simpsons Apple spoof likely has many wondering what a myCube is
I havent watched The Simpsons in ages. I guess I just find it hard to relate to a show that I found funny when I was eight years old. But I was shocked to learn that in its 20 seasons, the show hadnt really mocked Apple before until last night. In an episode titled, Mypods and Boomsticks, the Simps ...
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Updated: Panasonic and Samsung invest in SiBEAM to promote WirelessHD
In an endorsement for wireless video networking, Panasonic and Samsung said today they have invested an undisclosed amount into SiBEAM, the maker of high-speed networking chips. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SiBEAM makes WirelessHD chips that can wirelessly transfer video from one device to another in a l ...
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The Huffington Post confirms $25M third round
Political news site The Huffington Post announced today that it has raised $25 million from Oak Investment Partners significantly higher than the $15 million that was reported by the Times UK in late November. Kara Swisher of All Things Digital says the valuation was slightly less than $100 million ...
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Panasonic and Samsung invest $40 million in SiBEAM to promote WirelessHD
In an endorsement for wireless video networking, Panasonic and Samsung said today they have invested an undisclosed amount into SiBEAM, the maker of high-speed networking chips. A source close to the matter said the amount is $40 million. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SiBEAM makes WirelessHD chips that ca ...
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The Huffington Post raises $25M
Political news site The Huffington Post announced today that it has raised $25 million from Oak Investment Partners significantly higher than the $15 million that was reported by the Times UK in late November. Kara Swisher of All Things Digital says the valuation was slightly less than $100 million ...
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Africa joining the electric car craze, with Optimal Energys Joule
The entire world hopes to start driving electric cars soon, and Africa, despite its reputation for poor economies, is no exception. Luckily, a South African company called Optimal Energy is working to release a vehicle in 2010. And unlike the many attempts to make electric cars as small and cheap as ...
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Sellaband takes its bands and fans live with ArenaWorks deal
Sellaband, an online platform that allows fans to contribute seed money to aspiring bands, has just taken its service to a whole new level. It announced today that it will partner with ArenaWorks Entertainment to take bands that are able to raise $10,000 in micropayments of $10, or rack up the most ...
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Antimatter: Pangea makes another winning iPhone game
The first game I downloaded from Apples App Store for the iPhone was Enigmo, a puzzle game by the development company Pangea. Its a great game in the vein of Lemmings, but you manipulate drops of water rather than death-seeking drones so great, that I still actually play it. (How many iPhone apps c ...
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Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?
The big post-Thanksgiving shopping day known as Black Friday wasnt as awful for retailers at least for online retailers as some had feared, according to new data from comScore. Thats a good sign for the online economy, since Black Friday is usually seen as an indicator of how the rest of holiday s ...
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Power.com wants to let you interconnect with all social networks
Power.com, the latest company that wants to bring you social networking Nirvana by letting you update all your profiles from a single place, launches this evening. However, it needs a bit of work before its truly convincing. It has some bugs, and has the air of being rushed. But its goal is noble. F ...
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Ball-it: The magic ball that wants to kill the Wii
Ball-it, a Finnish company that makes a little ball that remotely interacts with your computer, phone or TV screen, wants to challenge the Nintendo Wii and become the latest, coolest way to interact with games. A host of other companies are trying to do the same thing however none of them have gott ...
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A new, elaborate $20 billion deal for Microsoft to buy Yahoo Search? [Update: Levinsohn says no]
Updated with a quote from Levinsohn below. Stop me if youve heard this before: Theres a report out there that Microsoft is in talks with Yahoo. The report, by the UK-based Times Online, claims that Microsoft is specifically once again trying to acquire just Yahoos search business. The price? $20 bil ...
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Fake iPhone 2.2.1 image begs the question: Where is Push Notification?
A Russian iPhone blog caused a bit of a stir today when it posted an image it claimed was of the first beta of the 2.2.1 firmware for the iPhone (2.2 was just released last week). The image and report raised the eyebrows of quite a few Apple blogs because the author claimed 2.2.1 would finally be th ...
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Mobile ad spending rises as iPhone effect kicks in
In recent weeks, weve been hearing rumors that companies are canceling their mobile display advertising budgets. But when we looked into it, we found that overall demand for mobile display advertising is actually increasing. What weve started seeing over the last few months is that advertisers incre ...
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