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Santé! Amazon se lance dans le vin
via TechCrunch en français by Michael Arrington (adaptation: Ouriel Ohayon) on March 06, 2008
Amazon va commencer à vendre du vin sur son site aux utilisateurs américainsSelon FT.com, Amazon est actuellement à la recherche d’un acheteur-sommelier qui sera responsable de la “nouvelle énorme sélection”La vente d’alcool en ligne n’est pas facile aux états-unis en raison de toutes sortes de restrictions et de réglementations différentes. Mais depuis 2005 et une loi qui...
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Apple annonce la création de iFund,un fonds d’investissement de $100 millions pour les applications iPhone
via TechCrunch en français by Michael Arrington on March 06, 2008
John Doerr d’Apple a annoncé, en plus du lancement du kit de développement, la création d’un fonds de $100 millions pour investir dans les startups qui créeront des applications pour l’iPhone. Le fonds sera dirigé par Matt Murphy chez Kleiner et sera appellé iFund. Extrait du site de Kleiner Perkins:” iFund de KPCB est un fonds d’investissement de $100M qui permettra de...
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Bloxes Brings Cardboard Tech To The Office
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 06, 2008
There is nothing that screams “frugal startup” more than cardboard furniture. Aza Raskin, the founder of Songza and Humanized who was recently hired by Mozilla, designed his own system of cardboard building blocks that can be assembled into desks, wall dividers, and cubicles for his own Chicago offices. Today, he is turning the side project into a business and launching it as Bloxes. What...
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If Facebook Music Really Launches, Will It Get Dissed By 50 Cent?
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 04, 2008
Rumors surfaced again yesterday on Billboard and today in other media outlets that Facebook is in talks with the record labels to launch a music service that will include either free ad-supported music streams or paid downloads. Talk of such a service started last October, but what Facebook ended up launching was simply artist fan pages. MySpace is also preparing its own music service to be...
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Google Analytics Data Sharing: Why Not Go All The Way?
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on March 05, 2008
Google Blogoscoped (and the Google Analytics Blog) is reporting that Google is now giving users the opt-in option to share their Analytics data with other Google services, and/or in an anonymous, aggregated way in a new benchmarking service. This is certainly useful for some companies - particularly since Google is only making new services based on this data available to users who’ve opted in:...
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Kyte Becomes A Mobile-to-Web Video Platform For Brands (Adds New Investors and Live Mobile Streaming)
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 06, 2008
Kyte CEO Daniel Graf is taking another big step towards turning the cell phone into a video distribution platform. “This is a big day for Kyte,” he tells me, “our biggest release since we launched our beta last April.” Up till now, Kyte allowed people to create their own personal TV channels on the Web by uploading videos from their cell phones to various widgets and to Kyte.tv. ...
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Here Comes Hulu Mania. Again.
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on March 07, 2008
If yesterday’s cushy article on Hulu in Fortune is any indication, Internet TV site Hulu is getting ready to leave private beta and launch to the public. Press like this doesn’t just happen without the company asking for it. They’re preparing for the big show.Hulu was expected to launch this month anyway, and the article mentions an “early March” release. And apparently they’re...
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Microsoft, The Jekyll And Hyde Of Companies
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on March 07, 2008
Mix Conference in Las Vegas. The event is Microsoft’s web focused get together where they talk coding and development with mostly white, geek guys (the only women seemed to be the Microsoft/ events staff), then there’s the occasional press person thrown in for good measure. The coverage the event gets pales in significance to say an Apple event (Apple could open a door and probably still get...
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