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Chad Hurley’s Take From The Sale Of YouTube: $334 Million
Posted from TechCrunch 1 day 11 hours ago
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You can learn all sorts of interesting tidbits from legal documents. For instance, in one of the legal briefs unsealed today in the YouTube-Viacom dispute, such as the amount of money YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley made from the $1.65 billion sale of the company to Google in 2006. His take: $334... (original story)
Labotec Raises Funding For Crowd-Sourced Mobile App Development Venture
Posted from TechCrunch 1 day 11 hours ago
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Miami, Florida-based Labotec has landed a round of funding from Kima Ventures, a European early-stage investment fund founded by entrepreneurs and angel investors Jeremie Berrebi (Zlio, Net2One) and Square backer Xavier Niel (Free, Iliad). The VC firm thus joins Kipost and FS Ventures as investor... (original story)
An Experiment: Putting The Audience On Stage (For Real) At TechCrunch Disrupt
Posted from TechCrunch 1 day 11 hours ago
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There are good things about conferences and there are bad things about conferences. One of the bad things is how little the audience gets to participate directly in the content being created. Sometimes there's a question and answer period at the end of a panel where people line up at a microphone to ask questions. But that's usually it. Other than booing and applause, and of course the back channel on Twitter, there's not much of a feedback loop. That's partially a good thing, of course. A room full of 2,000 people all shouting their opinions on a topic isn't much of anything except chaos. Bu... (original story)
iGroups: Apple Files Patent for Location-Based Social Networking App
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 1 day 11 hours ago
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Based on a patent filing that was published by the USPTO today and first discovered by Patently Apple, Apple could soon enter the location-based social networking market. The patent, which was filed in September 2008, describes a scenario where a group of users with mobile devices like the iPhone come together at an event like a concert, wedding, political rally or trade show. Normally, you would have to collect personal information from all the attendees you meet and then transfer this data manually into your existing social network if you want to stay in touch with them. Apple's patent, howe... (original story)
Sears Holdings Corp. Posts Thousands of Jobs on Twitter, Hundreds of Thousands to Follow
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 1 day 11 hours ago
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Sears Holdings Corp. just announced they posted thousands of jobs on Twitter via the Twitter-based job board service, TweetMyJOBS.com. The parent company of retail stores like Sears and Kmart and home to brands like Kenmore, Craftsman, DieHard, Lands' End, Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, Apostrophe and Covington, Sears Holdings posted over 500,000 job openings last year via traditional recruiting channels like job search sites and newspapers. Now those same jobs will be on Twitter, too. Says Lance Brolin, Director, Talent & Human Capital Services Operations for Sears Holdings, of the decision to enga... (original story)
Microsoft’s European Browser Choice Screen Causes Spike In Opera Downloads
Posted from TechCrunch 1 day 11 hours ago
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According to Opera Software, downloads of its latest desktop browser (10.5) have increased in number significantly after Microsoft started offering Windows users in Europe a choice in browser with a so-called ballot screen. The Norwegian software maker says that on average, more than half of the European downloads of Opera’s latest browser come directly from that Choice Screen. (original story)
Google Will Soon Allow You to Opt Out of Google Analytics Tracking
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 1 day 11 hours ago
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Google Analytics offers site owners an easy and free way to gather highly detailed analytics about their websites' visitors. A lot of people, however, don't feel comfortable with the idea that Google can track their every move on the Internet. After all, even if you don't use any Google product your... (original story)
Resistance Isn't Futile: Don't Assimilate Your Customers
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 1 day 11 hours ago
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It's human nature - we are wired to be averse to change. When something new comes into our lives, we inherently approach it with caution, and at times, with negativity and hostility; but if that change is fundamentally good and right, it will gradually become widely accepted. For startups, especiall... (original story)
Got Budget? Virtualization Leads to Fewer Meetings
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 1 day 11 hours ago
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McKesson is a global health care leader that has 26 operating companies. The centrial IT group had the vision to automate "the last mile" of IT planning, the budget approval process. We think of it as the budget approval dance, and when containing costs, it's a ritual that can leave scars. This co... (original story)
Undisputed Fiction Or Viacom’s Smoking Gun? Early Emails Between YouTube’s Founders
Posted from TechCrunch 1 day 11 hours ago
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We're still poring over the hundreds of pages of documents that were just released in the YouTube/Viacom litigation. One document that offers extensive insight into YouTube's early operations is Viacom's Statement of Undisputed Facts, which contains quite a few emails from the site's three founders... (original story)
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