economist's Bookmarks Tagged With "techcrunch"
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Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, NewsCorp - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/yahoo-is-still-looking-for-a-white-knight%e2%80%94news-corps-offer-does-not-pencil-out-neither-does-aols/
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"At this point, everybody and their mother has looked at ways to scuttle Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo: News Corp., AOL, Google, hedge funds. Even Barry Diller sniffed around (according to two sources), as did British Telecom and Asian investo… More
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Microsoft, Yahoo - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/04/microsofts-acquisition-of-yahoo-not-as-bad-as-some-think/
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"The Microsoft is evil meme is alive and well this week as many digest Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover offer for Yahoo. There’s Flickr users protesting, talk of Yahoo teaming up with Google to block Microsoft’s bid, and general Microsoft is bad… More
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TechCrunch - Technology Financial Deals
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/the-year-in-deals-2007-edition/
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Microsoft bought aQuantive, Yahoo bought RightMedia, and AOL bought a bunch of ad networks. Cisco bought WebEx for $3.2 billion. CBS bought Last.fm and Wallstrip, among other deals. Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft. And in venture fundi… More
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AOL - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/
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That is sad news. I have to say, “Thank goodness for Safari and Firefox”. I was using Mosaic prior to Netscape Navigator, but I dutifully downloaded all the betas of Navigator, from 0.93 to 1.1 and all the 2.0b1 through 2.0b7 and beyond. AOL ru… More
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Facebook, Google - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/21/facebook-stealing-googlers-at-an-alarming-rate/
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"Google works by leveraging raw links. That worked well before the web went to crap. Facebook works by leveraging people and their relationships. This has the potential to work better since it involves less data and less crunching: if the X-expert… More
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Google - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/google-knol-a-step-too-far/
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"I think Google is near a point where it can be considered an Internet Monopoly. They abuse their position of power in search to destroy the competition, just as Microsoft did in the past with software like Internet Explorer. You can argue that ex… More
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Lending Club - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/13/p2p-loans-gainingtraction-lending-club-goes-nationwide/
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"I am a long time, somewhat large lender (about 50th on lendingstats.com) on Prosper. I think what Zopa, Lending Club and Prosper are doing is great but agree with a comment above that the kinks have not been worked out yet. If I had to do it over… More
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Facebook - Discussion
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/05/zuckerberg-saves-face-apologies-for-beacon/#comments
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Erick, your last sentence, “Facebook is taking the heat because it is big, high-profile, and pushing the envelope. But it is not alone” hits the nail on the head. It’s good to see that Mark puts his ego aside to apologize for a feature gone wrong,… More
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Circular Money: Facebook And Yahoo Advertise Their Advertising Platforms On Google
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/facebook-and-yahoo-advertise-their-advertising-platforms-on-google/
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"Chris, perfect. Then they really are sending each other money." - Michael Arrington
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New Calacanis link-baiting rules
http://www.calacanis.com/2007/04/27/new-calacanis-link-baiting-rules/
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I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my 28x a daily ego search over at Technorati. The quickest way to develop a rela… More
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