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Rumor: Imeem Laying Off Staff and Looking for an Exit (Updated)

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 22, 2008 1:35 PM

According to PaidContent, Imeem, one of our favorite streaming music services, is starting to feel the pressure of the economic downturn and is planning to lay off a quarter of Continue reading »

Utterli Launches Free Group SMS via Facebook, Bebo

Written by Rick Turoczy / October 22, 2008 12:59 PM

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In the US, sending SMS messages can get spendy. In the rest of the world, however, texting costs can be downright oppressive. As such, finding cheaper ways to send SMS Continue reading »

Bill Gates Has Started a New Company, bgC3

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 22, 2008 12:26 PM / 23 Comments

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Bill Gates has started a mysterious new company, called bgC3, possibly to be focused on creating catalyst business ideas to spin off to Microsoft, the Gates Foundation or elsewhere. Little Continue reading »

Caspio: Gritty and Profitable In a Tough Market

Written by Bernard Lunn / October 22, 2008 12:25 PM

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As part of our Gritty Entrepreneurs series, we interviewed Frank Zamani, Founder/CEO of Caspio. Their pitch is "no more programming for custom web applications". That is a tough market, which Continue reading »

Rackspace Acquires Slicehost and JungleDisk: Challenges Amazon's Cloud Computing Services

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 22, 2008 10:56 AM / 6 Comments

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Rackspace, one of the world's largest hosting providers, announced two major acquisitions today: SliceHost and JungleDisk. Slicehost is a popular cloud computing and hosting provider with about 15,000 users, while Continue reading »

Audio Indexing: EveryZing's New Video Player Points Towards the Future of Online Video

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 22, 2008 9:24 AM / 4 Comments

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While online video is a great tool, automatically indexing these videos and making them searchable is still a very hard task. EveryZing, a Massachusetts-based company that focuses on media indexing Continue reading »

Google Launches U.S. Voter Info Site

Written by Sarah Perez / October 22, 2008 6:59 AM / 3 Comments

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With the upcoming U.S. elections only 12 days away, Google has released a new web site to help simply and centralize information about voting locations and voter registration. According to Continue reading »

Adobe's Ichabod and The Headless Search of Flash

Written by Rick Turoczy / October 22, 2008 1:30 AM / 11 Comments

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While Adobe Flash has remained popular with Web developers who want to deliver fluid user interfaces, database-driven content, and nonstandard typography on the Web, it has suffered from one glaring Continue reading »

Gmail Canned Responses: If I've Said It Once...

Written by Rick Turoczy / October 21, 2008 11:00 PM / 11 Comments

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You got that email again. You know the one. The one you've answered a million times. And even though you don't have anything more you can add to your response Continue reading »

AOL Quietly Launches One of the World's Biggest App Platforms

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 21, 2008 8:35 PM / 16 Comments

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AOL announced the new developer site for MyAOL today to almost no fanfare, but at a time when some are declaring the Facebook platform "dead" - AOL's new platform warrants Continue reading »

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