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WakeMate Delays Initial Shipment, Makes Moves To Appease Upset Customers

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Your groggy mornings aren’t over yet. A few months ago we wrote about WakeMate, a Y Combinator-funded startup that makes a small gadget designed to help you sleep better. Last time we talked to them, the WakeMate team had a ...Read More »

How Facebook And FriendFeed Became Turkish Delights

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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For the past couple of days I’ve been in Turkey, absorbing the tech scene in Istanbul (tomorrow I’m in Munich, Germany, for DLD). I was invited over by the Nubridge Venture Summit which brought together a panoply of European VCs ...Read More »

Larry and Sergey to give up voting control in Google

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Google revealed a plan today for co-founder Larry Page and Sergey Brin to sell off some of their company stock, with the end result that the pair’s voting power will drop below 50 percent. The news was revealed in a regulatory ...Read More »

Twitter Looks To Help Bring Hope To Haiti With Hope140.org

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Since the crisis in Haiti began, Twitter has played a big part in helping raise awareness of the tragedy. It’s also helped charities and celebrities reach out to the community to encourage donations toward the Red Cross and the other ...Read More »

Dave Morin leaves Facebook to join Napster creator Fanning on new venture

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Long-time Facebook employee Dave Morin, who helped build out the social network’s platform and later Facebook Connect, announced he’s leaving to start a new stealth venture with Napster creator Shawn Fanning. Fanning’s last company was the gaming startup Rupture, which ...Read More »

Google launches answer highlighting: Google Squared without squares

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Google said today that it’s going to be using technology from Google Squared, the interesting-but-flawed search tool that the company launched last year, to improve its regular serach results. The idea is to help users find the right answers when they’re ...Read More »

Twitter Starts Rolling Out Local Trends (Picture)

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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As you can see in the picture, Twitter has started to roll out its new Local Trends feature which takes the standard Trending Topics data and uses Twitter’s geolocation functionality to make it based on location. Twitter team members Ryan ...Read More »

Aircell flies high with $176M for airplane Wi-Fi

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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Aircell, provider of internet service on planes that allow passengers to communicate even when they are airborne, has raised a huge $176 million in private placement equity, which it plans to use to further expand its network. With more airlines offering ...Read More »

As Oracle-Sun deal gains approval, Oracle exec?s affair gets splashed on billboards

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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In the chronicles of Silicon Valley, it doesn’t get weirder than this. Just as the European Union finally gave its blessing to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystem’s, Oracle’s co-president found details of his 8.5-year extramarital affair splashed on billboards around ...Read More »

DEMO update: Get your applications in by Feb 5., meet more investors

{ Posted on Jan 23 2010 by wang }

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We’ve extended the deadline for applications to the upcoming DEMO conference to Feb. 5. With the next DEMO coming up soon — March 21-23 at the sunny resort town of Palm Springs, Calif. — we’ve been engulfed with applications from companies ...Read More »

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