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Toys R Us to Carry Amazon Kindle in Stores
Amazon’s Kindle eReader will be available at Toys R Us stores beginning July 31, 2011.The world’s largest toy chain will carry the Wi-Fi, 3G and Wi-Fi and Special Offers Wi-Fi editions, as well as an assortment of accessories, in its U.S....
New Snow Leopard Patch Fixes Lion Migration Issues
Apple has recently released Mac OS X 10.7 or Lion, but – as is usual with new releases – we’ve heard many stories about bugs from people who’ve upgraded to the new version of the OS. Apple seems to have noticed some problems as well,...
Egypt Situation Gets Worse, People Reporting Internet And SMS Shutdown
The world is watching in shock at the moment as reports continue to flood in of Egyptian protests mounting and the government pre-emptively striking back before tomorrow’s planned demonstrations by cutting off the nation’s Internet connection,...
How Can I Illustrate The Dystopian Hellscape Presaged By Demand’s IPO?
It happens, sometimes. I have what I think would be a fun idea for a joke, only to discover – often half-way through writing it – that someone else has already beaten me to the punch(line).
Today, for example, I wanted to write something...
Zynga Close To Acquiring Whereoscope, The App That Lets You Track Your Kids
Back in August we wrote about a Y Combinator-funded company called Whereoscope that helps parents keep tabs on their kids using a location-aware smartphone application. Now we’re hearing that the startup is about to be acquired by a company...
As MySpace Implodes, Tagged Doubles Staff And Gives Everyone A Raise
I recently over heard someone saying of MySpace – “It used to be dirty, underground, seedy and successful. Now it’s prom at a private school.” The company is struggling to reinvent itself. But traffic continues to plunge. Comscore says...
Facebook Shares Dip 7% In Most Recent SecondMarket Auction
A week ago Facebook shares were being traded at $28.26 per share, a $70 billion valuation. In this week’s auction at SecondMarket the per share price declined just over 7%, to $26.25, a $65.5 billion valuation with around 2.5 billion shares...
Coming Soon (Maybe) Book Review Column
Attention publishers and authors!
For a while I’ve been kicking around the idea of writing a semi-regular book review column here on TechCrunch. I don’t mean the pure “tech” books of the O’Reilly oeuvre, but rather works concerning...