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• Yahoo’s Chief Mobile Engineer, Sandeep Gupta, Lands At Next Jump

  

  On Friday, I caught wind that the engineering director in charge of Yahoo’s mobile app development, Sandeep Gupta, had resigned. Now I know where he landed: Next Jump. Gupta formerly worked at Apple on the iPod, and put out a slew of iPhone and Blackberry apps for Yahoo, including the...

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  August 23, 2010, 8:07 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

• Can Chatroulette Get It Up Again?

  

  You probably haven’t noticed (unless you’ve been reading TechCrunch), but Chatroulette is down. A message on the live, random video chat site says that “experiment #1 is over now” and that a completely new version of the site will launch later today. Chatroulette took the world by storm in the...

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  August 23, 2010, 2:10 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

• Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes

  

  Reports are appearing this morning about a major security hole in iTunes accounts linked to PayPal. At least one group of scammers has found a way to charge thousands of dollars to iTunes accounts through PayPal. One targeted customer told us, “My account was charged over $4700. I called security...

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  August 23, 2010, 7:54 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

• Hunch Tries Local Recommendations

  

  Recommendation site Hunch has been going through a reboot lately. Back in June, it stopped showing results to people who are not signed in, and earlier this month it redesigned its home page to offer personalized taste recommendations across a wide variety of categories such as dog breeds, U.S. national...

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  August 22, 2010, 10:04 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

• PocketGear Pockets $15 Million B Round From Trident, Blackberry Partners, And Eric Schmidt

  

  When it comes to mobile app stores, there’s iTunes and then there is everyone else. PocketGear which bills itself as the “World’s Largest Mobile App Store,” closed a $15 million series B round. The round was led by Trident Capital, with the Blackberry Partners Fund and Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s...

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  August 22, 2010, 8:39 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

• Google Is Anakin, Verizon Is The Emperor, And The Dark Side Is Winning

  

  Editor’s note: Jonathan Askin is Associate Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School and Founding Director of the Brooklyn Law and Incubator Policy Clinic (BLIP). He previously worked at the FCC and for the Obama campaign on telecommuncation policy. I can’t help but analogize Google’s role in the Net...

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  August 21, 2010, 1:00 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

• Fewer Americans Need TVs, But Only Because More Need Flat Screen TVs

  

  In the hierarchy of American Needs, the TV used to be paramount. But fewer and fewer Americans feel that they need a TV anymore. A headline-grabbing report from the Pew Research center titled “The Fading Glory of the Television and the Telephone” shows that more Americans surveyed say that they...

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  August 20, 2010, 12:41 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

• Rummikub: A Classic Boardgame Makes Its Way To The Facebook Platform

  

  Sometimes, hurling a timeless classic into modern times can be a formula for success. Case-in-point P-Kama, an Israeli company with $1.8M in funding that purchased the licensing rights to market Rummikub online. What’s Rummikub, you ask? True, it’s not as synonymous with boardgames as Monopoly is, but the tile-based game...

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  August 19, 2010, 3:57 am| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

• Total Beauty Adds Women’s Lifestyle Portal LimeLife To Its Fashion Empire

  

  Total Beauty Media is adding to its quickly-growing fashion empire. The Santa Monica-based startup operates cosmetics tips and review site TotalBeauty, BeautyRiot, and ModernMan (the latter as a joint venture with Break Media). Now, it has acquired LimeLife, a woman’s lifestyle portal in an all-stock deal. The value of the...

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  August 18, 2010, 9:47 pm| Read full article | More articles from techcrunch.com

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