News: Business & Finance

• Contest winner could help Presdo win at the scheduling game
  Anthony Ha
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  I have to admit, I’ve been a little skeptical about scheduling startup Presdo — I previously gave it the benefit of the doubt because founder Eric Ly (who cofounded professional...

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• ReputationDefender raises $2.6M to protect your good name
  Anthony Ha
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  ReputationDefender, a company that helps people manage their reputations and privacy online, has raised around $2.6 million in a first round of institutional funding.There are a number of businesses...

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• Did AT&T have Apple kill NetShare to start its own tethering plan?
  MG Siegler
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  An application called NetShare was the talk of the App Store back in July. The app, made by Nullriver, allowed users to connect their computers to their iPhone 3G to use the device’s unlimited...

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• MTN posts increased revenue, subscriber base
  Rebecca Wanjiku
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  MTN, Africa's largest mobile phone provider, has posted its half year results, recording a 35 percent increase in revenue and a 53 percent increase in subscribe base across its 21 African...

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• Microsoft fails to buy Yahoo, so it buys…some European comparison shopping sites?
  MG Siegler
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  If there is one thing Microsoft has plenty of it’s money. It proved that again tonight by agreeing to buy Greenfield Online, the parent company of Ciao, which runs various price-comparison and...

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• Nintendo revises its financial forecasts upward yet again
  Dean Takahashi
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Okay, this console war is getting really boring. Nintendo is thrashing everyone else. Today, the Japanese company revised upward its financial forecasts for the six months ending Sept. 30, 2008. It...

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• Roundup: Facebook movie casting, Yahoo shuts down Mash, and more
  Eric Eldon
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  The Facebook Movie has a very unofficial casting call — Yesterday, top Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin let it be known he was working on a movie about the high-flying social network....

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• Get discount tickets for GigaOm’s Mobilize event
  Matt Marshall
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Our friends at GigaOm are adding to their conference lineup with Mobilize, taking place September 18 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.Mobilize will ask what the growth of the...

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• Android Developer Challenge I winners — nary a big name in sight
  MG Siegler
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Earlier today we learned about the Android Market, Google’s way to get third-party applications on phones running Android. It sounds a lot like Apple’s App Store for the iPhone, but...

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• Webcarzz raises $4 million to create online car game for boys
  Dean Takahashi
  Aug 28 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Many of the successful online games for kids — from Club Penguin to Neopets — are appealing to girls. But Webcarzz is going after the boys with its new car-themed online video game...

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