Archive | June 6th, 2010

Yahoo Goes All In With Facebook: Here Are The Screenshots

Posted on 06 June 2010

Tomorrow Yahoo will announce a relaunch of Yahoo Profiles and their “all in” integration with Facebook Connect, including on the Yahoo home page. We’ve all known deep integration with Facebook was coming , but until now it wasn’t clear exactly how deeply Yahoo would go. The answer – pretty deep.

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Attack Of The Tweets: MTV’s Movie Awards Twitter Visualization Graph

Posted on 06 June 2010

I was hit with a reminder this Sunday morning that I am indeed no longer a 15-year-old teenager. But if you are a Bieber-Swift-Pattinson-Stewart-OMGVampires-loving tween/teen, then boy does MTV have a Twitter visualization map for you. In honor of this evening’s MTV Movie Awards , the digital team at MTV have rolled out a highly interactive (almost too interactive) Twitter live-graph that will tell you via text and dynamic visuals what are the top trending topics/people related to the Awards show, how many tweets per minute each topic is averaging, and the content of those tweets.

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Google Does The Hard Sell On Security For Its Enterprise Apps

Posted on 06 June 2010

It’s no secret that Google has ambitions of becoming an Enterprise productivity suite powerhouse; perhaps one day taking over the top spot from Microsoft. As Google’s President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development Nikesh Arora told us at TechCrunch Disrupt a last week, Google hopes for Apps to be a billion dollar revenue stream in three to four years.

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Hands-on With the Ulysse Nardin Chairman Android Phone

Posted on 06 June 2010

How much would you pay for an Android phone? $99?

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Can Indonesia’s Ciputra prove that great entrepreneurs are made, not born?

Posted on 06 June 2010

I’ve long argued that great entrepreneurs are born not made. I emphasize the word “great” for a reason. A hot market can convince someone to become an entrepreneur but such fortune-seekers are rarely the ones who build lasting, billion-dollar companies.

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Facebook, Steve Jobs, And Dog Day Afternoon

Posted on 06 June 2010

In his most recent email blast-turned- blog post , Jason Calacanis has chosen a familiar subject: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg .

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TC Teardown: Chegg Is A Money Machine

Posted on 06 June 2010

Editor’s note: Book rental startup Chegg is making money hand over fist. Guest author Steven Carpenter does a teardown of its business model and estimates its revenues will reach $130 million this year.

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