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The Ten Most Likely M&A Deals In Online Video
Editor’s note : Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo . Below are his picks for the ten most likely M&A deals in online video. Previously, he wrote a series if posts about the state of online video...
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Mobile Fundraising Campaigns Begin For Chile
Following the earthquake in Haiti, mobile fundraising via texting exploded; with over $40 million raised via text messaging alone. With the massive success of the Haiti campaign, mobile donations are now being used to raise funds for the victims...
Jimdo Makes Running Your Own O...
Jimdo Makes Running Your Own Online Store A Breeze, Loses Investor
People who use Jimdo to create and publish their own basic website know how versatile yet easy-to-use the tool really is – I know because I used the service myself to set up and manage a site for my wedding last year. And if these users now...
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Don’t “Pull A Patzer” And Other Lessons Learned On Our Trip Down Sand Hill Road
Editor’s note : Earlier this month, BrightRoll raised a $10 million Series B for its video ad network. In this guest post, CEO Tod Sacerdoti shares some of the lessons he learned trying to raise that money in the current environment. As Peter...
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How We Hate NBC’s Olympics Coverage: A Statistical Breakdown
The coverage of the Winter Olympics on NBC has been painful to watch. In addition to the tape delays which ruined the outcomes for anyone paying attention to any other news, sports or social media outlet other than NBC, there are a lot of other...
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19 Startups Showing Their Wares At TechCrunch Japan’s TokyoCamp Demo Event
A total of 19 Japanese startups were given the chance to show their services at TokyoCamp, a demo event held by TechCrunch Japan (one of the country’s biggest blogs) this Friday. The event, which was co-organized by hosting company KDDI Web...
NSFW: Cherchez la fame – or ...
NSFW: Cherchez la fame – or why the media’s obsession with Twitter campaigns will make customer service smell French
Time was, companies knew how to keep track of their important customers. First, they set up loyalty programs: computerised systems that tracked the monetary value of everyone who shopped in their stores or flew on their planes or ate at their restaurant....
Wordle In Trademark Trouble, S...
Wordle In Trademark Trouble, Seeks Legal Advice
I have much love for Wordle . I’ve used the text cloud generator dozens of time for use in presentations, TechCrunch posts and random stuff ever since I discovered the tool. But as of yesterday, the application is no longer available, and...
The Pitter-Patter of Little Fe...
The Pitter-Patter of Little Features
I was out of the country for much of 2009, so it wasn’t until I spent two months back in San Francisco that I noticed a big change in the Web community. Babies. I’m not talking about whiny Millennials coming out of college and demanding...
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Upcoming DSiWare Title Features Motion-Controlled Interactive 3D Dioramas
I have no idea what this game is called since the page on Nintendo.co.jp is made up of images (hence Google translate is useless) but an upcoming Japanese DSiWare title features a clever system of motion-controlled 3D dioramas that allow you to...
Upcoming DSiWare Title Feature...
Upcoming DSiWare Title Features Motion-Controlled Interactive 3D Dioramas
I have no idea what this game is called since the page on Nintendo.co.jp is made up of images (hence Google translate is useless) but an upcoming Japanese DSiWare title features a clever system of motion-controlled 3D dioramas that allow you to...
Twitter To Add “Nifty” Sit...
Twitter To Add “Nifty” Site Features That May Make You Forget Third-Party Clients
Twitter appears to be on the verge of some big changes to its website if a tweet that Twitter engineer Alex Payne sent today is any indication. In fact, the new features may be so good that they could make some people re-examine their use of desktop...
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By Chris Scott Barr AT&T has received a lot of grief over their 3G speed and reliability, mostly from iPhone users. Being an iPhone user myself, I tend to agree with such statements. It’s usually not too bad, unless you’re in a crowded area where other people may be sucking up the bandwidth....
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Paris-based Semiocast , which helps brands understand and interact with real-time Web services, has performed a semantic and quantitative study of Twitter based on an analysis of 2.8 million tweets. Turns out roughly half the tweets posted on the micro-sharing service are in English, even though the...
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Editor’s note : Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo . Below are his picks for the ten most likely M&A deals in online video. Previously, he wrote a series if posts about the state of online video (Part I , II , III , and IV ). Which online video companies...