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Google Cuts Milo At The Knees With Its Blue Dot Specials
Google just launched a new feature on the mobile version of Google Product Search which could take local shopping search startup Milo out at the knees. Whenever you do a Google product search from a mobile phone, blue dots will appear next to items which are in-stock at nearby stores....
Read more »March 11, 2010, 10:34 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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AOL, Intel, And The New York Times Help betaworks Raise a $20 Million Series B
Betaworks, the New York City-based holding company investing in the realtime Web, just raised a $20 million Series B. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures, The New York Times, Softbank Japan and Softbank NY, Lerer Investments and Founders Collective, also participated, along...
Read more »March 11, 2010, 9:13 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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Consumer Reports Says Apple Has The Best Tech Support, Acer/Gateway/eMachines The Worst
Consumer Reports has a new report on which computer company has the best tech support. Apple wins! That's what happens when the same company controls the hardware as well as the operating system (and several of the most prominent pieces of software). The highest ranking PC manufacturer is Dell for...
Read more »March 11, 2010, 8:51 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation
After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup. Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks, along with its core technical team and its main product, Twine. Rumors surfaced yesterday on ReadWriteWeb that Evri...
Read more »March 11, 2010, 8:50 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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Google Reader Makes A More Visual Play
Google launched a new service today in from its Labs called Google Reader Play. It is a more visual way to browse through the most popular items being saved and shared on Google Reader. When you launch it, you are presented with a large photo, video, or text excerpt on...
Read more »March 10, 2010, 2:08 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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Google Gains, Apple Stays Steady, And Palm Loses In Smartphone Share
No wonder Apple is suing HTC for patent infringement over its Android phones. In the three months between October and January, Android’s overall share of smartphone subscribers in the U.S. rose 4.3 points to 7.1 percent, according to mobile market share data released by comScore. Android showed the biggest single...
Read more »March 10, 2010, 11:23 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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UpNext: Three New Cities, Glowing Foursquare Checkins, And CityGrid Listings
One of the most detailed 3-D mapping apps on the iPhone is UpNext, which lets you click on 3-D buildings and see a list of the businesses and offices inside. Up until now, however, it only covered New York City. A new update adds three new cities: Boston, Washington, D.C.,...
Read more »March 10, 2010, 10:03 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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The Field Guide To Modern 3D Glasses
You might want to take a different approach when shopping for a 3D TV than a standard HDTV. Instead of just looking at the picture quality, you should also take a serious look at the brand's 3D glasses. Some show some clear advantages to purchase that brand's 3D TV and...
Read more »March 10, 2010, 8:30 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com
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The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped
Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. In it, he responds to critics of his last guest post arguing that enterprise software should be more like Facebook. Two weeks ago on TechCrunch I posted “The Facebook Imperative,” which posed a simple question,...
Read more »March 10, 2010, 7:35 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

