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Tech's top 10 workspaces [Cubicle Culture]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on May 06, 2008
What makes for an appealing workspace? The envelopes they leave in your mailbox every two weeks. But after that, it comes down to design and amenities. Also, we like windows and brick. Lots and lots of brick. After spending some time on Office Snapshots, we present the ten best-looking offices in tech, below.They like right angles and clean surfaces at Austin-based interactive agency...
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Duncan Riley quits TechCrunch [Blogging For Dollars]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on May 05, 2008
Today is Duncan Riley's last day of full-time writing for Michael Arrington's TechCrunch, we learned from Techmeme. Riley will move to his own publication, the Inquisitr. "My sincere hope is to have the opportunity to buy that blog some day and bring him right back into the fold," Arrington writes in his farewell.
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The Omnidrive story you won't read on TechCrunch [Deathwatch]
via Valleywag by Jackson West on May 05, 2008
Until a recent article from ReadWriteWeb declaring online file-storage and sharing service Omnidrive dead, founder and CEO Nik Cubrilovic was missinginaction. The support forums for customers went unattended even as the site went down. An investor, Clay Cook, who sunk six figures into the company couldn't get a reply to his email. Also nowhere to be found? Any reporting from TechCrunch.After...
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So far inside Silicon Valley, she's forgotten there's an outside [Sarah Lacy]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on May 05, 2008
In person, Sarah Lacy's fierce dishiness is charming. On the screen, her insider know-it-all schtick becomes harsh and grating. Take Lacy's latest post on LinkedInseeking a $1 billion valuation. The 30-word version: "I've I I I am not giving people the news as I write in my book, I hear from insiders. Imagine that! perhaps I can get to that later today." She has learned exactly...
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Barely legal entrepreneur interviews underage ex-Googler [Caption Contest]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on May 05, 2008
At 21, Darian Shirazi, is just old enough to order a drink at the bar of Junoon, the Palo Alto Indian restaurant where this shot was snapped. But he's already logged two years at Facebook, the sale of one company, and a round of funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson for Redux, his current startup. That was enough to draw the interest of John Hawksley, an MIT-trained engineer who interned last...
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Blogger nominates himself for CEO of Motorola's cell-phone spinoff [Blogging For Dollars]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on May 05, 2008
Engadget editor Ryan Block, noting that Motorola is struggling to find a leader for its cell-phone business, volunteers for the job. [Engadget]
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Microsoft bankers approach Facebook for acquisition [Acquisition]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on May 06, 2008
Sources close to Microsoft say the company's bankers have begun signaling to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg interest in acquiring his company. "We just want to gauge their interest, more than any real effort," one source told Kara Swisher, who first reported the news. These bankers figure there's little chance Zuckerberg will agree to sell to anyone but the public in the next few years, but...
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Humbled Yang disavows high-fives, says he was "very happy" to deal with Microsoft [Yahoo]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on May 06, 2008
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has not been replaced by chairman Roy Bostock, Kara Swisher reports. Yang's reputation, however, has taken a severe tarnishing. How far has his reputation fallen?Let's put it this way: He's been reduced to taking on the New York Times over whether or not he celebrated the end of Microsoft negotiations with high-fives. Times reporter Miguel Helft, who wrote that...
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How Google yanked AT&T's chain [Wireless]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on May 06, 2008
Negotiations to reform Clearwire, Craig McCaw's wireless-broadband startup, as a consortium backed by Google, Sprint, Comcast and others began as far back as January of this year. By mid-March the consortium had an outline of a deal that make Google the preferred software developer on the WiMax network. Today the consortium, operating under the Clearwire name, is expected to disclose that...
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Would you pay $999 for a customized Tumblr? Trustafarian bloggers will! [Tumblr]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on May 06, 2008
A couple weeks ago, when we showed you how to redesign your Tumblr for free, we mentioned that a company called Tumblize plan to charge $499 for the very same service. We were wrong. Andrew Wilkinson's Tumblize, launched today, will design you a customized Tumblr for "just $999." Startled by that kind of nonironic usage of the word just? Don't be. If Tumblr's blogging hordes have...
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