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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 04:43 pm

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News on TechCrunch continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

4 hrs ago | CenterNetworks

Video Blogging: Where's the Disclosure

Over the past 24 hours, a story has blown up regarding video blogging and the lack of disclosure.

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9 hrs ago | ValleyWag

TechCrunch discovers Provigil [Drugs]

I have to admit, before I signed on to Valleywag, I had a few issues with the " OC-80 scare of '07 ." Sure, maybe jaded VCs or entrepreneurs who'd already cashed out where taking strong painkillers, but ...

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Related Topix: Drugs, Medicine, Provigil, Modafinil (generic), Medication, Startups, Narcolepsy, Health, Sleep

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Gapingvoid

the techcrunch lithograph 2008

Click on image to enlarge etc.] The annual Techcrunch party is in Menlo Park next week, and as usual I'm supplying a signed, limited edition lithograph, sponsored by the groovy cats at Stormhoek .

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CNET News.com

Microsoft testing self-serve AdSense rival

Updated 5:20 p.m. PDT with Microsoft confirmation. Microsoft is ready to start expanding its AdCenter engine to allow at least some publishers to include contextual advertising from Microsoft on their site.

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Thu Jul 17, 2008

Fast Company Now

Blogging and Other Social Fixtures

In his blog post, It's the End of Blogging as We Know It , Norman Birnbach discusses Jason Calacanis' announcement that he would quit blogging and stick with sending messages to a mailing list of friends and ...

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PodTech Comments from the PodTech Gal...

Blogging for Dollars - Furrier.org Looking to Raise $50m

Today it was announced that SAI raised $1 million to build out their blog. Blogging is changing.

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ProgrammableWeb.com

TechCrunch Launches CrunchBase API

This week TechCrunch announced an open API for its CrunchBase database of tech organizations and related information.

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Wed Jul 16, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Ev talks about Twitter and buying Summize

You can now watch Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter, talking about Twitter, the Summize search engine , the potential for making money and other topics.

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Beet.TV

Yahoo! Entertainment Chief Headed to Comcast, Report

Karin Gilford, who heads entertainment for Yahoo! is leaving for Comcast, TechCrunch reported yesterday .

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TechCrunch

Pitch! in London - The Wrap

Last week TechCrunch UK held the first TechCrunch Pitch! event in London. The idea came about for this after I went to a number of demo and pitch events in the UK and other European countries and realized that ...

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Tue Jul 15, 2008

CNET News.com

Test feature shows social search may be on the way for Google

A lucky Google user, Adrian Pike , has noticed something cool on search results: buttons to vote on links, much like Digg or StumbleUpon .

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Related Topix: Startups, Social Software, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Mon Jul 14, 2008

ValleyWag

AOL wants to buy TechCrunch at a 70 percent discount to Arrington's...

Time Warner 's AOL and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington have been talking for the past two months, with AOL offering Arrington $20 million to $30 million to acquire tech's most dutiful clearinghouse for ...

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MediaPost Publications

The GPhone Is Back

TechCrunch Throughout 2007, rumors of Google's mobile push included speculation about a so-called gPhone that would presumably run on operating system software developed by the company.

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Related Topix: Startups, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software, iPhone

Beet.TV

Veoh takes ad targeting server out of beta

Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro told Andy at OnHollywood last month about plans to monetize the site with behaviorally targeted ad videos.

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Silicon Valley Watcher

BoomTown Says TechCrunch Likely Next to be Acquired

Kara Swisher got a great scoop last week with Guardian Media's $30m acquisition of PaidContent and now says that TechCrunch has been in talks with Time Warner's AOL.

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Sun Jul 13, 2008

ValleyWag

Meet Calley Nye, snacky flack turned TechCrunch contributor [Great Moments In Journalism]

Calley Nye is a fresh-faced young woman from Southern California who founded her own flack shack, Exonerated PR , to leverage a preternatural ability to sign up for every social network under the sun with the ...

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Sat Jul 12, 2008

DesiPundit

Swastika on Google Trends

Etcetera Banners Donate Jul 10 08 3 Swastika on Google Trends Michael Arrington for all his Web2.0 goodness is no expert on world culture and history.

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Fri Jul 11, 2008

ValleyWag

Did TechCrunch editor unpublish his writer after a breakup? [Calley Nye]

We had heard rumors that the relationship between 38-year old TechCrunch publisher Michael Arrington and 22-year old Exonerated PR founder Calley Nye might have been more than strictly professional.

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Thu Jul 10, 2008

Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Deal Radar 2008: PaidContent

'the flagship site of ContentNext Media Inc. - ' is a blog site that covers news on media related technology worldwide.

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Wed Jul 09, 2008

The Industry Standard

TechCrunch (and Gawker!)'s secret Digg army

Gawker Media is a paragon of transparency. They left up a post I wrote slamming the company over its pay system and regularly "leak" internal memos .

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