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Apple and Google: Stealing the Technology Spotlight

by Mike Mansell September 27, 2010

What do technology giants Google and Apple have in common? Besides staying relatively stable in a otherwise shaky economy, both companies have managed take the spotlight in the media; something that cannot be said about other technology entities such as Microsoft. So why is it that a report today from the Pew Research Center says [...]

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How I Would Fix The New Digg

by Jeff Weisbein August 28, 2010

Kevin Rose is in a tough position right now. Digg version 4 has been officially released to everyone. One might say that the problem is many people are upset with the changes and while that is true, I think the problem really stems at the fact the Digg’s core user base is comprised of geeks [...]

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Newspapers Have Alternatives to the Paywall, But Will They Explore Them?

by Jeff Weisbein July 20, 2010

It has been over a year since we published an article entitled The Future of News and the newspaper industry is still hurting. Many of them are now implementing paywalls in order to read their content, but is this truly the right approach?

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Sex.com Back on the Market, Internet Explorer Grows

by Jeff Weisbein July 2, 2010

I’m going to try to do the weekly news thing again every Friday. So without further ado, here is this weeks top stories that made the short list. Story #1: Sex.com is back on the open market, Sedo, a company which specializes in selling domain names is the broker for this deal. You can email consult@sedo.com [...]

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We’re Back, Just Like We Said We’d Be Back.

by Jeff Weisbein May 27, 2010

Well, we’re back. It has been over two weeks, but I think the downtime will be beneficial in the end. While that may seem like an odd thing to say, it has allowed me to have a lot of much needed time off from the site. In the past few weeks, I have been able [...]

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TechCrunch Sues FusionGarage, Aol. Spins Off, and Apple Tablet for $1,000?

by Jeff Weisbein December 12, 2009

Tech News from 12-7-09 through 12-11-09. This week includes TechCrunch suing FusionGarage for stealing the CrunchPad. Mozilla is launching Firefox Mobile for Nokia phones, Windows Mobile, and Google Android. No Firefox Mobile for the iPhone has been mentioned yet (that I have seen). By the way, Firefox Mobile will support extensions such as Adblock. [...]

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Mozilla Says No Firefox OS, Chrome for Mac Beta Lacks Features, and more!

by Jeff Weisbein December 4, 2009

I’m going to attempt something new, so tell me how you like it as well as your thoughts in the comments. The plan is to make a new video every Friday of the top 5 or so tech stories during the week and recap them with my own thoughts. I’m still tweaking the format and [...]

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The Future Of News

by Eric Massengill July 16, 2009

In my last article, I talked about what the newspaper industry is doing to stay afloat. Their biggest worry now is monetizing their content, which is understandably hard on a medium designed specifically to facilitate the easy transfer of information. Currently, their strategy revolves around pay-walls, but pay-walls heavily favor primary sources over smaller news [...]

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Will Newspapers Be Able To Survive The Economic Downturn?

by Eric Massengill July 9, 2009

One of the common topics these days, especially across political blogs, is whether or not the newspaper industry will survive its current troubles (and whether or not it deserves to). I think everyone has heard a thousand times since last year how much the news industry is struggling, how no-one reads anymore, and how the [...]

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