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Not too long ago, there were some grumblings about the state of the tech blogosphere and the industry in general. By spending so much time reading Techmeme, Twitter, FriendFeed, and

With additional writing by Josh Catone. This morning saw the first five startups at the TechCrunch40 event hit the floor and presented to journalists, investors, and early adopters. The first

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Last night at a reception to kick off New York's Internet Week held at Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/SharePoint_Goes_Web_2_0_Microsoft_Partners_with_Atlassian_Newsgator'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator. The partnerships link

At least once each day I get a call from someone trying to sell me outsourced development services. It's difficult to not be frustrated with these calls and it is

MyStrands, a music discovery and social networking site that covers the PC, mobile and physical worlds (see our profile in January), has released an interesting new recommendations feature. It uses

In this web-enabled world of ours, you have to wonder why business cards are still so popular. Shouldn't there be a better way? A number of startups have attempted to

In my previous post, I noted how the new Gmail/Google Docs & Spreadsheet integration feature threatens Microsoft. There's also some high level discussion going on in the tech sphere about

There are more startup tech companies launching this week than almost anyone can keep track of, but any time a new service launches - one thing is key to its