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Nisan Gabbay of Silicon Valley VC firm Sierra Ventures has started up an interesting new blog called Startup Review, which aims to profile Web startups from a business angle. Here's

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_deals/A_Yahoo_eBay_Merger_Makes_Sense'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The idea of a Yahoo!-eBay merger has been around for a long time. Most recently, the merger rumors were revived

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/eBay_s_New_Services_Are_Chaotic_But_Will_They_Still_Be_Profitable'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Earlier this week eBay launched ToGo Widgets for any listing. These slick, Flash-based widgets can be embedded into blogs, social

Open source software development tools provider SourceForge.net, today officially launched their SourceForce.net Marketplace, an eBay-like online market for buying and selling open source services and support. The Marketplace has been

While it can sometimes seem like Skype has been around forever, today only marks the 5th anniversary of the popular VOIP client. When it was first released, Skype marked a

Excellent techie tips from O'Reilly Radar: "A longer-term solution is to build your business model into the API. In my mind the most successful APIs for the company providing the

The rumor tonight is that social shopping service Kaboodle has been acquired for $30M+ by Hearst. We profiled Kaboodle and other social shopping services back in December in our

John Pacchetti, an early innovator in the RSS space, has finally succeeded in selling his company RSSCalendar. Pacchetti put the company up for sale on for $50k on eBay this

For a long time, artisans wishing to sell their hand crafted goods generally had to do so locally through gift shops, swap meets, and craft fairs. Then in the mid-90s

At the Accel Symposium, we heard John Donahoe, eBay CEO, admit that there was little synergy between core eBay, PayPal, and Skype. He lauded PayPal, showed some false modesty around