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Tech Roundup: Michael Arrington Spat On

Tech Roundup: Michael Arrington Spat On

Fast and quick this time around: – TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is sick with the flu at the Digital Life…

10:00am Jan 27, 2009
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Tech Roundup: Morgan Webb Commits to G4

Tech Roundup: Morgan Webb Commits to G4

The morning’s fresh and it’s a start of a great week! Despite the thousands of layoffs and the likelihood of…

9:00am Jan 26, 2009
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Eater LA chops editor in chief

Eater LA chops editor in chief

Eater LA — the Los Angeles centric food and dinning blog part of Curbed Networks, Lockhart Steele’s own Denton-esque fiefdom…

12:00pm Jan 22, 2009
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Tech Roundup: Obama Layoffs

Tech Roundup: Obama Layoffs

Barack Obama is president for one day and here are the results: – Microsoft lays off 5,000. – Google might…

9:00am Jan 22, 2009
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Tech Roundup: WhiteHouse.gov

Tech Roundup: WhiteHouse.gov

In the first day of the Obama Administration, the tech world’s heart skips a beat. Elsewhere: – Jason Kottke throws…

9:00am Jan 21, 2009
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2008 Crunchies Party Report

2008 Crunchies Party Report

If brevity was the soul of wit last year, this year the continuing encapsulating keyword is: meh. In the midst…

5:00pm Jan 12, 2009
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Amazon IMDb buys BoxOfficeMojo

Amazon IMDb buys BoxOfficeMojo

IMDb — an Amazon subsidiary and an indispensable Los Angeles face book — let loose that it has completed a…

11:00am Dec 18, 2008
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Wallop Recovers To Buy EtchStar

Wallop Recovers To Buy EtchStar

Wallop — originally a Microsoft Research project in 2006 — was meant to be a social network to compete with…

10:00am Dec 18, 2008
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Tech Roundup: Michael Arrington Breaks Embargo

Tech Roundup: Michael Arrington Breaks Embargo

- TechCrunch’s editor Michael Arrington hates you PR and marketing people bugging him all the time and making him agree…

9:00am Dec 18, 2008
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Tech Roundup: Apple Canceles Christmas

Tech Roundup: Apple Canceles Christmas

- Steve Jobs won’t show up for Macworld 2009 in January and Apple will stop attending. Someone thought it was…

9:00am Dec 17, 2008
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Tech Roundup: Palm Announces Nova

Tech Roundup: Palm Announces Nova

- Palm, Inc. — or Palm Computing, or PalmSource, or palmOne — stole Jon Rubenstein away from Apple over a…

9:00am Dec 15, 2008
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World of Warcraft Addiction Might Cause College Dropouts

World of Warcraft Addiction Might Cause College Dropouts

Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment has been making addictive games since 1991, but none has been as wildly successful multiplayer role-playing game…

1:00pm Dec 12, 2008
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LA Mayor Is On Twitter, But Who Can Help Him Do More?

LA Mayor Is On Twitter, But Who Can Help Him Do More?

Ask any social media expert what the main lesson is from Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign — hopefully you asked…

12:00pm Dec 12, 2008
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Tech Roundup: Google and the Death of Print

Tech Roundup: Google and the Death of Print

- Google is being speculated at considering scooping up the rotting corpse that is the family-owned New York Times Company.…

10:00am Dec 12, 2008
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Tech Roundup: Tumblr Scores $4.5 Million

Tech Roundup: Tumblr Scores $4.5 Million

- Tumblr’s founder and CEO David Karp anted up and scored $4.5 million in funding from Union Squares Ventures. Tumblr…

9:00am Dec 11, 2008
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