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TechCrunch UK & Ireland is a blog covering Web 2.0 and Mobile start-ups. TechCrunch UK is part of the TechCrunch Network, which includes country-specific blogs for France and Japan.
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Should Microsoft Be Scared of ChromeOS?
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-19
TechCrunch submits: By John Biggs While you won’t be able to sense it at first, expect to feel a high frequency buzz from the direction of Redmond in the next few months. That’s the Windows 7 and Office group fearing the rise of a new juggernaut on low-cost...
eBay Completes Skype Sale at $2.75 Billion Valuation
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-19
TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters eBay EBAY has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners...
AOL Heads Toward Its IPO, Asks for 2,500 Voluntary Resignations
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-19
TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Thursday informed staff that the company will be looking for 2,500 people to voluntarily hand in their resignations, which would represent about one third of the company’s payroll. by TechCrunch
Salesforce Chatter: A Real-Time Social Network for the Enterprise
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-18
TechCrunch submits: By Leena Rao We’re here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s CRM annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting strong earnings Tuesday for the third...
Yahoo Go Is a No Go
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-18
TechCrunch submits: By Leena Rao Before there was an iPhone, Android and App Store, there was Yahoo! Go. Launched in 2006, Yahoo! Go was an application offered news, mail, weather, traffic, and Yahoo! search from a mobile device.Yahoo YHOO is announcing that Yahoo! Go will be...
Operation Failure: News Corp. Plans to Charge for One-Day Access to The Times
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-17
TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters Newspapers continue to struggle with finding an economically viable and sustainable business model for the production and distribution of news on the Web, and not a day passes without me reading about some idiotic statement about the future of online news or journalism...
Kodak Hooks Up with TweetPhoto for Realtime Photo Sharing
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-17
TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters Imaging tech juggernaut Kodak EK is pretty keen on utilizing social media to connect with current and potential customers, boasting a presence on such sites as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. by TechCrunch
RockYou Raises $50 Million In Fourth Round
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- 2009-11-17
Social networking app firm RockYou has raised $50 million in a fourth round of funding led by Softbank, TechCrunch reports. RockYou’s apps span all the major social networks; it also runs an ad network, which it claimed reached more than 178 million users last month, up from 130 million...
Expensify Raises $1 Million For New Hires, Mobile App Development
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- 2009-11-16
Expensify, an online expense report management startup, has raised roughly $1 million in its first round of funding, per an SEC filing. The new money came from Hillsven Capital, Baseline Capital Ventures and Red Swoosh and Scour investor Travis Kalanick; CEO David Barrett said Expensify will use the investment...
IBM Furthers Move Toward Business Analytics with Smart Analytics Cloud
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-16
TechCrunch submits: By Leena Rao During IBM’s Q3 earnings call a few weeks ago, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge highlighted business analytics as a sector where Big Blue is investing significant amounts of cash. The company recently acquired data analytics company SPSS for $1.2 billion and business analytics firm...
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| James Thomas | Founder of the Company |
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Michael Arrington is the founder and editor of TechCrunch.com, one of the premier Web publishing ventures devoted to startups and new Web technologies. Michael got his law degree at Stanford Law School and practiced law before joining a series of startups, including RazorGator (where he was chief operating officer) and Pool.com, a privately-held, Ottawa-based company where he was CEO. He is also the co-founder of a Web service called Edgeio.com. Michael has been quoted and/or featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week magazine and other leading publications.
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