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<title>Getting The UnParty Started: Seesmic Lays Off 1/3 Of Staff</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's time to start slamming the reality of the Silicon Valley situation home to everyone. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur lets seven employees go, he says, which is more than a third of the company. This comes on top of three employees let go a couple of weeks ago.

"We cut everything that wasn't outsourceable, core or absolutely necessary for the company."

Le Meur says the company isn't in dire financial trouble yet, noting he raised a $6 million round just a few months ago. But he's planning for a bleak fundraising future.

I am an investor in the company.]]></description>
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<title>Parallel Kingdom Set To Launch One Of First iPhone/Android MMOs</title>
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Since the launch of the iPhone App Store, we've seen a wave of geo-aware social networks that make use of the phone's GPS (or in the case of the original iPhone, pseudo-GPS).  Each of these apps aims to help facilitate social interaction by locating nearby friends, points of interest, or people you might be interested in meeting (but might not know yet).  There's little doubt that some incarnation of one of these apps will help shape the future of social networking, but there's still a huge geo-aware market that has yet to be tapped: Games.



Parallel Kingdom, launching at the end of the month, is set to become one of the first massively multiplayer online games (MMO) to hit the iPhone platform and Android platforms (both platforms will share the same in-game network).  MMO's have been tremendously popular on personal computers with mega-hits like World of Warcraft, and have proven to be lucrative with subscription models that feed off their addicting gameplay.  Parallel Kingdom is hoping to take this success to a mobile platform.]]></description>
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<title>Elevator Pitch Friday: Palo Alto Software Makes Collaborative E-Mail Intelligent</title>
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It's Elevator Pitch Friday, which means another startup has created a video that's worth showing you. This week's presentation comes from Palo Alto Software, a software company startup that wants to make it easier for organizations to manage and collaborate using e-mail, to save time and be more productive.

Palo Alto Software wants to make organizations more efficient, by taking community wide e-mail boxes, such as info,sales, or admin, and applying logic and analytics against them. For organizations that deal with large quantities of e-mail, managing that e-mail can become a task onto itself.  Palo Alto software's E-mail Center Pro automates this task, freeing employees up to focus on the content of the e-mail instead of just managing it. E-mail Center Pro is sold through a Software as a Service model, with pricing based upon e-mail volume. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple has released a statement that may affect those of you with newer MacBook Pros with Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT graphics cards. Said graphics cards have been known to be faulty and may cause video to be scrambled or distorted.

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<title>Entellium Scandal Gives Ignition Partners a Black Eye</title>
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Just because you run a private company that does not have to file quarterly financial statements with the SEC does not make it okay to cook your books.  The CEO and CFO of Seattle-based CRM firm Entellium found that out the hard way. They were arrested by the FBI earlier this week for inflating their revenues and then lying to their board about it.  The company appears to be toast.  It fired two thirds of its staff of 60 people in Seattle, and its Website is down.  We are putting it in the deadpool.

The CEO, Paul Johnston, and CFO, Parrish Jones, kept two separate set of books. One they showed the board, and the other was the real one.  The fake one inflated revenues by $11.7 million over the past three years. For instance, in 2006 they told the board that revenues were $3,950,362, but they were really only $582,079.  In 2007, the fake revenue number jumped to $6,291,705, whereas the actual revenues were only $1,446,238.  This deception continued until September 26, 2008 when the VP of human resources, Melisah Wojtacha, came across the fake board books while cleaning out the desk of a former sales VP.]]></description>
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The entire stock market is taking another drubbing today, and Google is no exception.  Its shares tried to rally in the morning, but are now trading below the $329 they closed at yesterday.  That's a key price level Google employees are watching because a huge chunk of their options (1.7 million across the company) were granted with a weighted average exercise price of $329.78. The options are worthless under that price. In addition to that, there are another 5.7 million options that were granted at weighted average exercise prices of $450 and above.  (see table below).  All told, 61 percent of Google's stock options granted to employees are currently under water.

The rest of Google's stock options become worthless at the average exercise prices of $275, $177, and $21 (for pre-IPO employees, who don't have much to worry about).  All of these numbers com from Google's second quarter 10-Q and don't reflect any options that may have been granted in the third quarter.  (Google's third-quarter earnings announcement is next week). 

Only eight days ago Google's shares were trading at $411 and three months ago they were above $450.  In that time, a lot of paper wealth has disappeared and along with it incentive for many recent hires to stay.  ]]></description>
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<title>Real World Got You Down?  IBM Invites You To A Virtual Forbidden City.</title>
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Can't afford a ticket to China to go visit the Forbidden City?  Well, now all you need is your computer.  IBM, which is a big believer in virtual worlds, and China's Palace Museum have created an exact replica of the 178-acre Forbidden City.  After working meticulously for three years to recreate every building and thousands of major artifacts, the virtual Forbidden City is now available for download (for Windows, Mac, or Linux).  It's free, although, I warn you the Mac version, at least, is a massive 275MB file.  

Once inside, you can choose an avatar, dress him or her up in Qing Dynasty-era robes, take virtual tours, play Go with computer-controlled characters, call up maps, explore buildings and objects that allow you to click for deeper information.  The virtual world was built on a gaming platform from Garage Games called Torque.  ( I guess OpenSim wasn't good enough.  No word on whether it will be interoperable with Second Life).]]></description>
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<title>Mahalo Sets Out To Liveblog The World</title>
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When Mahalo launched about 16 months ago, we called it a human-powered search engine and began thinking of it as a Google competitor. But it's so-called "guide pages" for topics as diverse as the Boston Marathon and Patriotic Drunk Rednecks provide not only links but quick facts, making Mahalo an editor-driven, Wikipedia competitor as well. And with a new site-wide design launching today, Mahalo sharpens its focus on the news cycle and competes more directly with sites like CNN and a multitude of news aggregators.]]></description>
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<title>Fitbit Raises Healthy $2 Million From True Ventures And SoftTech VC</title>
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Fitbit, producer of a sleek little device that clips onto your clothing and tracks your movement throughout the day and night, has raised $2 million from True Ventures, SoftTech VC and several angels in what appears to be the company's first round of institutional funding.

The device, set to go on sale in early 2009 for $99 a pop, uses the information it gathers about your movement to help you determine how much exercise you've been getting and how many calories you've burnt. It can also tell you how many steps you have taken and how well you've slept, all based on its internal motion detector.]]></description>
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<title>An Ignoble But Much Needed End To Web 2.0, Marked By A Party In Cyprus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In May 2007 I wrote "Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks" in a post about how, in my opinion, Silicon Valley was ripe for a downturn.

This week, without any doubt, we got that downturn. It was different from the last downturn in that it wasn't driven by the crazy bullishness of Silicon Valley venture capitalists and investment banks. This time, Wall Street and our government screwed everything up all on their own while we minded our own business and acquired our own instead of going public at crazy valuations. 

So what exactly just ended? Easy capital to start. And that means already funded companies are going to tighten their belts in a big way, per the request/demand of venture capitalists like Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Ron Conway.
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<title>Sequoia Capital&#x2019;s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We were able to track down the presentation that Sequoia Capital gave to its portfolio company CEO's earlier this week (and so did VentureBeat). It's a long, 56 slide Powerpoint message of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley that we covered yesterday along with an email that angel investor Ron Conway sent to his 130 active portfolio companies.

The final text slide reads "Get Real or Go Home."

Benchmark Capital jumped on the band wagon today with their own email to portfolio companies. The messages are all similar - companies need to stay ahead of the curve as much as possible. Cut costs now, and raise capital if you can. If there's someone out there willing to buy you, do it. Etc.

Of course all this negativity helps create the very downturn that venture capitalists are warning their companies to defend themselves against, perpetuating a sort of vicious cycle downward. But that's ok, sometimes the hedge needs to be pruned. And this is what makes Silicon Valley its ugly, beautiful self.
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<title>Benchmark Capital Advises Startups To Conserve Capital, Look For Opportunities</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Sequoia Capital and Ron Conway communicated with their portfolio companies to guide them through troubled times. Today Benchmark Capital joins the fray, with what a source says is an email from General Partner Bill Gurley to their portfolio companies (See our interview with Gurley and new partner Matt Cohler from earlier this year).

Like the advice being given by Conway and Sequoia Capital, Gurley is urging his companies to remain calm, but get tight control of their finances, starting now. 

Gurley also says for companies to expect "across-the-board reductions" in valuations, and a tough market for raising money - "Basically, the cost of capital is going way up." Hedge funds are probably out of the picture for startup financings, he says, and corporate, strategic and angel money will decline.

Gurley also notes that major opportunities will become available to those who "play the game frugally." He says "The real key is to have a keen understanding of the game on the field and to be the one that adjests swiftly, rather than the one that moves after it's become blatantly obvious to everyone else it's time to move."

The full memo is below.]]></description>
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<title>Wallet Feeling A Little Light?  Check Out The Expense Tracker</title>
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With the economy slipping closer to rock bottom every day now, many of us are going to have to start cutting back on our day-to-day expenditures.  Cue Voice2Insight's The Expense Tracker, an online expense tracking system that makes entering every transaction as easy as calling a phone number and saying a few words.

Most expense trackers require users to input their daily transactions from their computers, which is time consuming and requires an impressive memory (or very organized receipts).  Voice2Insight's system allows users to call a designated number, where they're prompted by an automated system to state the amount they've just spent and what category the transaction would fall under (for example, I might say "Groceries, $50").  And if you forget to leave one of the voice messages, you can manage your account from the computer as you would with a traditional system.
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<title>Yahoo Shareholder Asks Microsoft To Re-Bid At $22. Good Luck With That.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Private equity fund Mithras Capital, which holds 1.9 million shares of Yahoo (about 0.14%), will propose to Microsoft that they buy Yahoo at $22 per share, Reuters reports. Microsoft would then unload Yahoo's Asian assets adn non-search businesses, take $3 billion worth of cost savings and some tax benefits, and end up with Yahoo's search business for $10.3 billion.

Microsoft is obviously thrilled to see this kind of corporate chaos at Yahoo, although they are unlikely to even respond to the proposal. Yahoo, as usual, looks like amateur hour as their shareholders conduct (or try to conduct) negotiations behind their back. 

Mithras Capital partner Mark Nelson said he will send a letter proposing the deal to Microsoft and Yahoo this evening.

Meanwhile, Yahoo was down another 8.1% today, to $12.65, from yesterday's close of $13.76. ]]></description>
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<title>SonicSwap Puts Your iTunes Library On The Web For Streaming And Sharing</title>
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Since the launch of YouTube's API and the release of Seeqpod, we've seen many sites emerge that allow users to create playlists of their favorite songs that can be streamed free of charge.  Unfortunately, this can be a tedious task - oftentimes users are forced to recreate the playlists they already have in iTunes because the sites lack an upload function.  SonicSwap, a startup that launched this week, has addressed this issue by creating a free streaming music site that can monitor a user's iTunes music library, adjusting playlists in real time and effectively giving users access to their entire iTunes library from any computer. 

The site features an interface that is nearly identical to iTunes (CEO Dan Skilken says that his artists redrew the familiar icons, but it's tough to tell).  Users can access their playlists on the left side of the screen and the main panel on right has a list of songs, with the video/music player controls at the top.  The site pulls audio and video through the YouTube API, and while it comes up with a few false matches (playing back bad cover versions or karaoke), in general it is speedy and accurate.]]></description>
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<title>What&#x2019;s For Breakfast At Your House: Obama O&#x2019;s or Cap&#x2019;n McCain&#x2019;s?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

This week's award for best marketing promotion related to the election goes to AirBed &#038; Breakfast, the peer-to-peer pad crashing site for travelers.  (You list how much per night you want for travelers to stay on your floor, and they book through the site).  Today, I received a package from AirBed &#038; Breakfast containing the two boxes of cereal pictured above: Obama O's and Cap'n McCain's.  In addition to the physical boxes of cereal, there are two catchy jingles for each cereal (embedded below), and a Webpage where you can vote for the cereal you prefer.

I just really like the design.  The front of the Obama O's box is stamped with "Hope In Every bowl" and on the back it calls itself the "Breakfast of Change."  The McCain character on the Cap'n McCain's box is appropriately wearing a naval officer's uniform, and the side of the box sings the praise of eating squares (inside the box are repackaged Quaker Puffs; the Obama O's are really Honey O's).  The copy on the side of the Cap'n McCain's box could have been written by his campaign:]]></description>
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<title>FOWA rocks London, Euro startups pitch TechCrunch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Future of Web Apps conference kicked off in London today and almost 2,000 startups and developers hit the East of London for the event.  Highlights from the day included Kevin Rose from Digg, and a bunch of great speakers. Every year the event changes and there is an interesting pivot point going on as the European scene develops.

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<title>Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps</title>
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With Google's stock down $100 in the past two weeks, the company all of a sudden isn't so shy about pulling every advertising lever it can reach.  So far this week, we've seen new click-to-buy buttons on YouTube (YouTubevertorials), AdSense for Flash games, and now text ads are appearing at the bottom of Google Maps.  This may be bucket testing, but when I enter "New York City hotels" on Google Maps, I get a single line below with text ads for the Crowne Plaze Times Square and the Ramada New York.  (An arrow lets you cycle through the ads).

Other bloggers around the world have noticed the same thing, including Amit Agarwal in India and David Shaw in the UK.  The ads are local business ads, but seem to be triggered by the search terms.  ]]></description>
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<title>Amazon S3 Customers Now Benefit From Economies of Scale</title>
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Amazon has introduced a tiered pricing scheme for S3, its cloud storage service, that will take advantage of increasing economies of scale and go into effect November 1st.

Currently, American customers pay $0.15 for each gigabyte of data they store each month. With the new scheme, this will remain the price only for users who require less than 50 terabytes of storage. Once demands exceed that level, pricing drops to $0.14 and then $0.13 per gigabyte-month, and then settles at $0.12 for customers who need to storage over 500 terabytes of data.]]></description>
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<title>Wakoopa Begins Tracking Web Apps Alongside Their Desktop Counterparts</title>
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The team behind Wakoopa, a social network that tracks and shares information about the desktop applications used by its members, noticed that Firefox and Safari were consistently ranked as the network's top two applications by usage. So they took this as a cue to start measuring web apps in addition to desktop apps, since their data confirm (at least among the developer types drawn to its service) what we already know anecdotally: that web apps are slowly replacing desktop apps.]]></description>
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<title>QikCom Adds Its Own Twist To Enterprise Twitter: The TabStore (Invites)</title>
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We now have a horse race for who will become the enterprise version of Twitter.  Today marks the beta launch of QikCom, which is aimed at companies that want their employees to communicate with each other privately in a Twitter-like fashion.  QikCom joins Yammer (winner of this year's TechCrunch50), and Present.ly.  We have exclusive invites for TechCrunch readers (sign up here with a company email address).  

All three are micro-messaging services that ask: "What are you working on?"  Employees update each other in 140-character bursts.  (You can read our writeups of Yammer here, and Present.ly here).  But QikCom out of Austin, Texas, has a few twists of its own.  For instance, it lets you delete a message after you've sent it and you can set up an org chart.  

But the biggest twist is QikCom's TabStore.  It is modeled on Apple's App Store for the iPhone.  QikCom will keep adding features as new tabs, and allow other developers to do the same.  At launch there are three free tabs in the TabStore that anyone can add: a To-Do list manager, a place to keep frequent numbers used across a company, and, my favorite, a competition tab.  ]]></description>
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<title>Apple Announcing New Notebooks on October 14th and CrunchGear will be there [Update]</title>
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The invites are out and the rumors can be laid to rest. Will it be new "Brick" aluminum-cased MacBooks/Pro? Or just plain old plastic ones with Nvidia chipsets? Will they be under $1,000?

Be sure to tune in for CrunchGear's live blog of the event on October 14th at 10AM PDT. 


Update: Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster weighs in on pricing for the new MacBook along with updates that are expected for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Read the rest at CrunchGear]]></description>
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<title>Brutal</title>
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Here is a one-month stock chart comparing Apple (down 40 percent), Google (down 20 percent), Yahoo (ditto), and Microsoft (down about 10 percent).  Microsoft is holding up best.  If Yahoo keeps diving, what next?

Discuss among yourselves.]]></description>
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<title>As the Markets Melt, Wikinvest Wire Launches To Offer Advice From Financial Blogs</title>
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The current market gyrations have investors running everywhere seeking advice.  What better time to launch a newswire culled from the latest posts of financial bloggers?  That's the idea behind Wikinvest Wire, which has just been launched by the user-edited investment site Wikinvest.  Except that it is not really a newswire in the traditional sense. It is more like a contextual recommendation system for the blogs invited to participate.

Wikinvest Wire is starting off with 100 financial blogs, including Confused Capitalist, Money Morning, College Analysts, The Mess That Greenspan Made, Financial Armageddon, and Old School Value.  All told the blogs attract about one million unique visitors a month.  Wikinvest is also in the process of syndicating the Wikinvest Wire to mainstream media sites, where links will appear on their stock pages.  Wikinvest Wire is invite-only, but interested bloggers can apply.

The Wire will exist primarily on the participating blogs themselves, on Wikinvest topic pages, and on the yet-to-be-named media sites.  For each of the 100 financial blogs, at the end of each post three links will appear to posts from other blogs in the network discussing the same stock or financial topic (such as "Google (GOOG)," "bailout," or "credit default swaps").  The contextual links will also appear on relevant pages on Wikinvest and other stock and financial sites.  (See screenshot).  In this sense, it is similar to contextual recommendation systems like Sphere, OutBrain, or BlogRovr, which all append recommended links at the end of blog posts or news articles using a variety of methods.  ]]></description>
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<title>JanRain Promotes OpenID Adoption Through The Long Tail</title>
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JanRain, creator of some of the most popular OpenID software libraries and a forum-like communications tool called Pibb, has released a new SaaS offering for websites that want to become relying parties for OpenID.

We're told that the service, simply called RPX, makes it possible to start accepting users with OpenID accounts within one day. This is actually the second SaaS solution provided by JanRain, the first being the similarly named OPX, which lets websites do the opposite: provide OpenID accounts to users, who can then sign into any other websites that accept them. JanRain also provides OpenID accounts to users directly through its myOpenID service.]]></description>
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<title>Dow Ends Worst Week Ever with Wild Swings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dow ended the worst week in its 112-year history with only a modest loss on Friday, while the Nasdaq fared a little better.
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<title>Choosing the Right High-Performance File System</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With several high-performance file systems to choose from, we outline some of the options out there and which applications they may be best suited for.
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<title>YouTube to Carry Full-Length CBS Shows</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The move comes as the Google-owned video giant seeks to find ways to monetize its vast user base.
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<title>FCC Set to Weigh In on White Spaces Feasibility</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regulators' report could support tech heavyweights like Google and Microsoft as they fight for unlicensed spectrum against big-name rivals in broadcasting and telecommunications.
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<title>Datacenter Dollars Seen as Steady Spend</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You might not be traveling as much but you'll be greener than Ireland on St.
Paddy's Day.
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<title>Verizon Mulls Text Fee to Milk a Cash Cow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: While text messaging is booming, the carrier considers increased prices for bulk delivery. Will it send commercial customers running?
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<title>There&#x27;s Method Behind Zach Nelson&#x27;s Madness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The CEO of hot SaaS firm NetSuite, has come a long way from his early ambition to be a doctor.
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<title>Apple Updates to Fix Open Source Security Issues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Latest Apple security fix list tackles at least 15 flaws that could leave Mac users at risk.
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<title>Latest Linux Hits Networking Flaws</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New Linux release adds new functionality and overcomes an error that toasted early adopters.
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<title>Alert Victim Helped Shell Nab Alleged Data Thief</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Details fall into place in the wake of a suspected inside job.
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<title>Android: One Mobile OS to Rule Them All?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forget smartphones: Android could move into the far larger, low-end mobile market, sparking more change in an already turbulent industry.
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<title>New Pitch For Microsoft to Buy Yahoo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A possible deal lives on, thanks for a small investor's pitch.
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<title>Web Technology Cuts Mobile Calling Fees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Skype strykes again.
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<title>Plunge in RIM&#x27;s Shares Could Attract Takeover Bid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Would Microsoft really pay $34 billion for the company?
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<title>Oracle and SAP Keep Hammering Each Other</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are the vendors locked in a death dance? Or a war of attrition?
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<title>Technical Analysis: Deeply Oversold</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The stock market is as oversold as any in U.S. history, but it still needs buyers.
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<title>Storage Vendors Brace for Economic Storm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Storage vendors haven't been able to completely escape the perfect financial storm threatening the global economy, according to financial analysts.
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<title>Google Aims to Save Mail Users From Themselves</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gmail's "Goggles" will keep you from EUI -- e-mailing under the influence.
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<title>Big Blue Can&#x27;t Stop Stock Freefall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Even better than expected results from IBM couldn't stop the global stock market panic on Thursday.
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<title>Apple to Spotlight New MacBooks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tantalizing hints of a long-overdue product refresh slip out, along with a deluge of rumor.
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