Amazon&'s Mechanical Turk is, among other things, a great place to get cheap labor to perform simple tasks that help black hat SEO efforts and general... read more »
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The news on Monday appears to be that Facebook will reinvent email. TechCrunch says it‚a4‚¬‚a4„s the long awaited Gmail killer. Others say it‚a4‚¬‚a4„... read more »
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Here&'s the latest action we&'re following today on the GreenBeat:Tesla will unveil Model X electric SUV this year &8212' Elon Musk laid out the compa... read more »
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Motorola has just purchased 4Home, the developer of home monitoring, control, and energy management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. 4... read more »
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There&'s a lot of hoopla right now that Google&'s Chrome OS has been delayed and will miss the stated release date of &''this year&''. Much of this is... read more »
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Gowalla, one of the earliest and best-known services that lets you share your location with friends, today released the newest version of its Android ... read more »
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Herea4‚¬a4„s the latest from VentureBeata4‚¬a4„s Entrepreneur Corner.Therea4‚¬a4„s no such thing as a free sample a4‚¬a4œ Adding music to your busines... read more »
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Life is good for the reigning Android hardware king Samsung. The company released its record-breaking earnings report (PDF link) for the fourth quar... read more »
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Alibaba.com said that its chief executive David Wei has resigned after an investigation found evidence that more than 2,000 subscribers engaged in fra... read more »
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Brilig, an advertising data marketplace, has raised $1.8 million in funding.The company provides a platform for individuals and companies to buy and s... read more »
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There&'s a subtle difference between being famous and being internet famous.Entertainer Paula Abdul, at one point a judge on the hit talent-seeking sh... read more »
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My guest on Ask A VC this week is Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures. He&'s also a professional kiteboarder. You may ask: Why would a guy who has been... read more »
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Apple reported moments ago that it had a huge first fiscal quarter, with record revenues and earnings that blew away Wall Street estimates.The solid r... read more »
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Project Diaspora. The open source Facebook-killa. You know the one. Developers got a taste of it last month. And the rest of us were supposed to get a... read more »
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Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Peter Chernin sat down with New York Magazine&'s John Heilemann to talk ab... read more »
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The initial votes are in for this year&'s Crunchies, the annual tech awards cohosted by VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and GigaOm. Now the real fun begins.F... read more »
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As public and political eyes turn to the federal budget and cost-cutting, Silicon Valley startups backed by Department of Energy loan guarantees and g... read more »
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Chute, which keeps track of photos that are destined for the Web and other sharing photo-services, announced that it is launching today at the Launch ... read more »
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LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner said today that two words &8212' keg stands &8212' will protect his company&'s professional social network from a... read more »
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If you thought you were safe from hearing more about Microsoft&'s ill-fated Kin phones, think again. Verizon is apparently gearing up to offer the pho... read more »
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