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It’s not that Amazon set out to destroy small book stores. They just offered a better option for a large number of people. Now, Amazon is increasingly offering small features here and there that taken together may start to make a traditional publisher a lot less necessary for authors.
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First Amazon Took Down Booksellers….Are Publishers Next?
Maybe you heard, Verizon finally has the iPhone. Or it will, in a few weeks .
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So When Do The “Droid Did” Verizon iPhone Commercials Start?
Social gaming is expected to be a billion-dollar business this year, according to an eMarketer report released today. Of course, this staggering number isn’t surprising considering the massive growth of both Zynga and Facebook as a platform for social games
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Social Gaming To Be A $1B Market In 2011; Virtual Goods To Bring In $653M
Google Places is now on your iPhone . If you download the app ( iTunes link ) you get a mobile version of Google Places, Google’s local directory. It shows you nearby restaurants, coffee shops, bars, ATMs, gas stations, hotels, and other attractions.
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Google Serves Places On The iPhone With A Side Of Hotpot
In the land of customizable merchandise, the bar is set pretty low. You can get a hankie customized or one of those squeeze balls but what about a $3,000 watch?
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OwnEdition: Customizable Watches For You And Yours
Chicago-based startup FeeFighters ( formerly TransFS ) has raised $1.6 million in new funding led by Sandbox Industries with OCA Ventures, Arizona Bay Technology Partners, 500 Startups, i2a Ventures, Hyde Park Angels and other investors participating. FeeFighters is a comparison shopping site for credit card processors. The startup aims to help merchants save money on credit card fees and also conducts reverse auctions to solicit competing bids from credit card processing companies
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FeeFighters Raises $1.6 Million To Be The BillShrink For Business Services
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Greylock Partners VCs Reid Hoffman and James Slavet . Reid Hoffman is Co-Founder and Chairman at LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock. His complete profile can be found at www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman
Twitter Chairman and Square founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose last night to talk about Dorsey’s unique position of being responsible for two technology startups based on the idea of simplicity: Twitter and Square. Watching this interview you realize that Dorsey’s accomplishments have little to do with luck, and more with his focus on creating the purest products by throwing away any unnecessary flourishes.
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Jack Dorsey On Charlie Rose: “It’s Really Complex To Make Something Simple.”
In the world of online video, there is a battle brewing over the next dominant standard for online video, especially on HTML5 Web pages. Today, Google took the gloves off and declared that it will soon stop supporting the H.264 video codec in its Chrome browser
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The Gloves Are Off: Google Chrome Browser Will Drop Support For H.264 Video Codec
Photo sharing applications are clearly all the rage right now, with newcomers seemingly popping up every week. Between Instagram, picplz, Path and others, people already have a lot of ways to share their mobile snapshots with friends. But now they’ve got one more, and it’s focused on a different use-case: shopping and fashion
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Pose: A Photo Sharing App For Fashion And Shopping That Just Raised $1.6 Million
