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iPhone To Be Sold In The UK Equivalent Of Walmart

TechCrunch -- Is an iPhone price war about to break out in the UK? After Vodafone and Orange bagged the iPhonewhen O2s two year monopoly expired in Septemberwe learn today that Tesco, the UK supermarket leviathan, is to sell the iPhone on Tesco Mobile, its MVNO joint venture partnership with O2.This news just sent the iPhone directly into the mainstream. UK iPhone app developers are looking at an even bigger go...     11-25
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KIDO’Z Upgrades Its Web Environment For Kids

TechCrunch -- KIDOZ, the Israeli company behind the eponymous media browser for kids, has released a new version of its program and insists that we now refer to it as a Web OS for kids instead.Its certainly not an invalid point, since the new KIDOZ incorporates communication features besides content consumption elements only, and the company is making strides in signing up computer manufacturers to have the pla...     11-25
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Four Years In, You Can Now Subscribe To WordPress.com Blogs By E-mail

TechCrunch -- You would think that, almost exactly 4 years after opening up to the public, WordPress.com would have a way for people to subscribe to blogs by e-mail, right? Youd be wrong, at least until today. While there has always been the possibility to subscribe to blogs by e-mail using FeedBurner or other RSS facilitators, WordPress.coms parent company Automattic has now added an email subscription feature...     11-25
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Scamville Shakeout: Was Gambit The Right Fall Guy?

TechCrunch -- Im not sure any lasting change will come from our series of Scamville posts. For now the most egregious of the social gaming offers are gone, which is a good thing. But none of the big players seem to have felt much pain. And, importantly, Facebooks rules still allow most of the really bad stuff (as long as users are being told in the fine print exactly how theyre being screwed). Its only a matter...     11-25
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Mobile Web Usage Continues To Explode As Opera Mini Nears 40 Million Monthly Users

TechCrunch -- We all know the Mobile web is exploding in popularity. Opera Mini, Operas mobile browser, grew its monthly users by 11 percent to nearly 40 million users in October from 32 million users in August. In terms of page views, Opera Mini delivered 17.2 billion last month, a 238 percent annual increase, indicating that mobile web usage is growing fast. Since Septembers report, page-views have gone up by...     11-25
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Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up

TechCrunch -- Only a year ago, the conventional wisdom was that blogs were dead and microblogging would soon replace them.Twitter was supposed to kill blogs because its so much simpler to publish one sentence fragment at a time rather than whole thoughts bunched together into what is known in the trade as paragraphs.Today, blogs are doing fine, while Twitter is struggling with flattening growth, at least to its...     11-25
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Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008

TechCrunch -- Earlier today GigaOm reported that Dropbox raised a new $7.25 million funding round over the summer (a number they derived from a SEC filing but that CEO Drew Houston wouldnt confirm).We just spoke to Houston, who says that figure is wrong, and its off by nearly a year: Dropbox did close a Series A funding round, but it was for $6 million, and it was back in October 2008.And it was led by Sequoia,...     11-25
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If Kerouac Lived In The Present, OnTheRoad, The Service, May Have Interested Him

TechCrunch -- Theres a ton of buzz around location right now. Our discussion on it at the RealTime CrunchUp this past Friday easily could have gone on twice as long as it did. There are just so many interesting facets: Business models, privacy, real-life social implications, and so on. Not surprisingly, were seeing an explosion of services that are built around it. One such service was a TechCrunch50 demo pit c...     11-25
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For Teracent Rival Tumri, Google Now Becomes A Frenemy

TechCrunch -- Googles acquisition of display advertising startup Teracent yesterday had significant meaning for rival Tumri; the San Mateo-based advertising platform now counts tech giant Google as a competitor. Tumri, which launched in 2004, provides a similar advertising technology to Teracent. The startups product, AdPod, creates display ads that are customized in realtime to the specific consumer and site.T...     11-25
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Canopy Financial Turns Into Sad, Comical Game Of Hot Potato

TechCrunch -- This morning we broke the news that Canopy Financial, no. 12 on this years Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies, is a complete sham.And its no surprise that today, everyone is trying to point the finger at everyone else.The companys investment bank, Financial Technology Partners, which has represented Canopy Financial through at least two separate rounds of fraudulent fundraising, emailed to...     11-25
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In Time For The Holiday Retail Frenzy, Lucky Magazine Makes Editorial Picks Shoppable

TechCrunch -- As fashion magazines, like Vogue, are trying to establish viable digital strategies, Lucky Magazine is making their first venture into the e-commerce world with the launch of a online retail site. Partnered with loyalty shopping technology startup Mall Networks, Lucky is rolling out a retail site that makes editorial picks shoppable. The site will feature daily editorial picks on clothing, accesso...     11-25
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YC-Funded WakeMate Helps You Kiss Groggy Mornings Goodbye

TechCrunch -- Ah, the curse of the groggy morning.You may have followed all the rules: no caffeine before bed, an early bedtime, and all the rest.But your best efforts are oftentimes for naught, foiled by the mysterious ways of sleep cycles.There may be an answer: WakeMate, a Y Combinator-funded startup thats launching today, is looking to help you catch that ever-elusive good nights sleep (and maybe even the p...     11-25
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SafetyWeb To Target Anxious Parents

TechCrunch -- Mike Clark and Geoffrey Arone are preparing to roll out a new startupSafetyWebweve confirmed.The company has raised a small angel round from Battery Ventures. Clarke was an early executive and SVP of Engineering at Photobucket and was there from the start and for two years following the $300 million acquisition from FIM/MySpace.Arone, a cofounder of Flock, recently sold his startup DanceJam to Spo...     11-25
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Microsoft Loses Its CFO, Promotes From Within

TechCrunch -- Microsoft is losing its chief financial officer, Chris Liddell (pictured right), who will be departing the company at the end of the year.Liddell will be replaced by Peter Klein, the current CFO of Microsofts Business Division. Lidell joined in May, 2005 from International Paper.The stock is at about the same place as when he joined.Liddell has overseen a period of cost-cutting and stock buybacks ...     11-25
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Maybe Mark Zuckerberg Won’t Hate That Facebook Movie After All

TechCrunch -- Yesterday, Facebooks Dave Recordon commented that he just finished a marathon session of The West Wing, a great show about the inner-workings of a fictional White House that ended its run on NBC in 2006. I agreed with Recordon, it was a great show. You know who else agreed? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. So why is this interesting? Well, the creator of The West Wing was Aaron Sorkin. He was als...     11-25
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Mega Machu Picchu Luxury Holiday Giveaway

TechCrunch -- The holiday season is approaching fast, and that means one thing here at TechCrunch: more giveaways!Sure, weve given away Twitter gadgets and wireless music systems, but this is definitely the best giveaway yet by a mountain peak.In fact, the winner will be climbing a mountain in Peru to the fabled Inca city of Machu Picchu.Well, you and a guest will actually be on horseback most of the way, and s...     11-25
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Amazon Announces Better Battery Life and Native PDF Support For the Kindle

TechCrunch -- Amazon announced some major changes to their Kindle e-book reader today. Specifically, it stated that they've worked out a way to increase battery life by 85%. That means that the new firmware update will allow you to leave your Kindle on (with the wifi active) for about 7 days before you need to recharge. Additionally, the Kindle will now support Adobe's PDF format natively. Previously, you had t...     11-25
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American Express Is Twitter Crazy Too. Unveils Its Small Business Tweet Stream.

TechCrunch -- Businesses using Twitter; theres something to this idea. Even Twitter itself realizes it, as its expected to be a part of its own business model launching soon. In the meantime, other companies continue to jump into the ring. The lastest is American Express, which today unveiled Pulse, a Twitter stream focused on small businesses. Pulse, which is a part of American Express Open Forum site, uses Tw...     11-25
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Gmail Supports Attachments Even When You Are Not Attached To The Internet

TechCrunch -- Gmail is furthering its offline strategy today with the announcement of the ability to include attachments in composed emails when offline. Google says this was one of the most requested features for Offline Gmail and starting today, you be able to attach files in offline mode the way you would in online Gmail.Youll be able to attach all types of files except inline images, which are images in the...     11-25
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Google’s New Search Ads: Ignore This!

TechCrunch -- While theyve been selectively displaying them for a little while now, Google today took the time to talk about and show off its new search ads. The general gist? Bigger, bigger, click me, bigger. Or, in Googles own words, Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive information. That can be true, I suppose, but each of these additions also make the ad...     11-25
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