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The Share Bears in the Land Without Portability [Separated At Net Worth]
via Valleywag by Tim Faulkner on January 31, 2008
Caring is sharing, people, especially when it comes to your personal data. Leading developers from important social-network sites joining a "data-portability" advocacy group doesn't represent history in the making. It's a marketing campaign to make everyone feel sickly sweet, knowing that these websites are so concerned about our information. Like the Care Bears, by signing on to the...
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Valleywag's green issue [Rants]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on January 18, 2008
Someone named Brittney from Samantha Slaven Publicity in L.A. has written me to ask if Valleywag has a "green issue." Well, we're not a print magazine, Brittney, so that's plenty of trees, ink, and energy saved right t
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Why layoffs won't help Yahoo [Layoffs]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on January 21, 2008
Rumorsabound that Yahoo is set to cut 1,500 to 2,000
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Amazon.com buys Audible.com for $300 million [Acquisitions]
via Valleywag by Jordan Golson on January 31, 2008
What's the value of the spoken word? $300 million, according to Amazon.com, which just purchased the leading digital audiobook reseller, Audible.com. The amount is a premium of more than 20 percent on yesterday's closing price. The purchase of Audible, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary, shows that Amazon is serious about digital content. Amazon has sold Audible's audio...
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Politics tangles Facebook-Google daters [Geek Love]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on February 05, 2008
Google has found a photogenic spokesperson for its election-tracking effort: Brittany Bohnet. Yes, the same Brittany Bohnet who was, last we checked, dating Facebook evangelist Dave Morin. Yes, the same Facebook which is aggressively pushing its own elections coverage. What's that old rule about never talking work or politics on a date?
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The 15 biggest tech acquisitions since 1998 [The Chart]
via Valleywag by Jordan Golson on February 14, 2008
So Microsoft buying Yahoo for $44.6 billion is a big deal. No, it's a massive deal. Before Microsoft's share price dropped, it was to be the second-largest tech deal made in the past decade after AOL/Time Warner. Even more impressive? Like the AOL deal, this is a merger you can explain to your mom. Most people have never heard of the big tech companies. Hell, I've never heard of some...
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Fred Wilson vs. Michael Arrington, the 140-character version [Nerdfight]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on February 18, 2008
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson has lashed out at TechCrunch over its coverage of some startup you've never heard of. TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington responded by accusing Wilson of being biased. I'd summarize the whole spat for you, but Wilson's and Arrington's Twitters have done the job already.
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Pay-for-play Yahoo Buzz "blows away" Digg -- but will users bite? Vote in our poll [Conflicts Of Interest]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on March 17, 2008
Yahoo Buzz, the Digg competitor we uncovered last month, has Web publishers giddy over traffic binges. Us Weekly, Salon and Michael Arrington's TechCrunch all report that when Yahoo Buzz put links to their sites on Yahoo's homepage, they posted record traffic days. "It's clear that a link from Yahoo.com blows away anything Digg or any other competitor can offer," Arrington writes on...
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Digg's secret editors [Exclusive]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on January 17, 2008
Why do some stories abruptly disappear from Digg? Duncan Riley of TechCrunch suspects "super users." But there's a much simpler exp
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