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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
SearchMe Calls Out Yahoo On BOSS Screenshot	SearchMe, a new Sequoia-backed search engine that launched in March, isn’t happy with some of the screen shots that have been seen around the Internet promoting Yahoo’s new BOSS (“Build Your Own Search Service”) product. In particular, this shot, which was included in a CNET article, shows what appears to be SearchMe’s search interface (itself borrowed from Apple’s iTunes album browser) with the logo cut off (compare it to this). CNET describes the screen shot as &ldq...	October 06, 2008
TC50: Exit Strategies, M&A Uncovered	TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde led a panel today with some of the biggest names in mergers and acquisitions, who have collectively been involved in deals totaling billions of dollars. Included on the panel were Michael Marquez (EVP of Corporate Development at CBS), David Lawee (Head of Corporate Development at Google), and Ted Wang (Partner at Fenwick & West LLP). Heather is also a M&A expert, as she was SVP Mergers & Acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media prior to joining TechCrunch...	September 10, 2008
TechCrunch 50 Session 4: Advertising And Commerce	During the fourth session of TechCrunch 50, three companies came on-stage and discussed ways to improve advertising, while one company told those in attendance how to streamline email and make it easier to manage email overload. The session featured five panelists: Entrepreneur, Marc Andreessen; MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe; Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com; Entrepreneur Yossi Vardi; and Ash Patel, Yahoo’s executive vice president of the Audience division. Some of the paneli...	September 08, 2008
Everyone Needs To Calm Down	I haven’t had a lot of time to jump into the big fracas this weekend emerging about TechCrunch50 because the team has been busy organizing the conference, working with the Expert Panelists on scheduling issues and spending hours and hours working with the 52 startups that will be launching at the event to make sure their demos properly reflect what they’ve worked so hard to create. But I do have a few things to say. First, thanks to Chris O’Brien at the San Jose Mercury News w...	September 07, 2008
So Is Chrome The Fastest Or What?	There have been a number of timed and anecdotal speed tests performed on Google Chrome over the last couple of days. My personal testing: Chrome is the fastest browser I have ever used. More structured TechCrunch testing showed similar results: It’s fast. Here are what others came up with: CNET agrees, but their approach was biased towards Google. Chrome came out way ahead in a suite of Javascript benchmark tests. The only problem is that Google hosts the tests and flat out says they tu...	September 04, 2008
Picasa Refresh Brings Facial Recognition	In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa, the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them. Launching at noon PDT today, Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for people based ...	September 02, 2008
CBS (CBS): A Chance To Spin-Off CNET	A chance like this only comes along rarely. CBS (CBS), which is trading at just above $17, down from a 52-week high of $32.97, could spin-off CNET. The large... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	August 14, 2008
How can the New York Times be worth so little? Easily	Filed under: Newspapers, New York Times'A' (NYT), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS), Media WorldBusinessWeek recently posed the question of how The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) could be worth so little? The question is worth pondering.The company has a market cap of about $1.8 billion, roughly the price that CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) recently agreed to buy CNET for. Its enterprise value is about $2.85 billion.Lehman Brothers analyst Craig Huber estimated that the Boston Globe and 15 regional papers could be sold...	July 25, 2008
T-Mobile should settle text message lawsuit	Filed under: Products and services, Law, Consumer experienceT-Mobile is in legal hot water for allegedly failing to protect consumers from unwanted text messages. This is the last thing the German-owned telecom company needs.The company, which has struggled for years to gain traction in the U.S., now must deal with a costly and potentially embarrassing class-action lawsuit. According to CNET.com, a federal judge has refused to throw the case out, which will force T-Mobile to shell out big bucks ...	July 25, 2008
Prepping For Mobile Web Wars At MobileBeat	Today and tomorrow I am going totally mobile. And if you are in the Bay Area, so should you. It’s not too late to get tickets for MobileBeat, VentureBeat’s mobile conference that goes all day today. You can get a 10 percent discount on tickets by using using this code: TCMB08. I will be there moderating a panel with Rich Miner (Google’s group manager of wireless), Matt Murphy (the Kleiner Perkins Partner who runs the iFund), Sam Altman (CEO of Loopt), and J.H. Kah (SK Teleco...	July 24, 2008

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