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The Billion Dollar Mind Trick - TechCrunch
Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto and, despite her addiction, attends Stanford University. She has all the composure and polish you'd expect of a student at a prestigious school, ...
Evernote Raising $50 Million To $100 Million At A $1 Billion+ Valuation - TechCrunch
Cloud note and storage app Evernote is raising a massive fifth round of funding of between $50 to $100 million at a valuation that tops $1 billion, according to multiple sources close to the company. Contrary to what Business Insider is reporting, ...
Facebook Targets May 17th For IPO Date - TechCrunch
This just in: according to multiple sources close to the company, Facebook is eyeing IPO on May 17th — depending on whether the SEC gets back to it on whether or not all the reams of paperwork are in order. This is in line with earlier reports that ...
Google's Sergey Brin To Retire: “I'm Really Into Blues Guitar” - TechCrunch
That's where he used to carry his Blackberry,” said one Google exec who asked to remain anonymous. Brin has been known to grab his guitar during meetings and wail out a long, expressive series of notes evoking the concepts of hard-travelin', ...
Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs Amid Privacy Concerns - TechCrunch
But they declined to be named so as not to jeopardize their relationship with Apple. So here's what I'm hearing. Two of the 10 review teams started doing blanket rejections of apps that access UDIDs this week. Next week, that will rise to four the ten ...
Veteran Googler Dennis Woodside To Replace Sanjay Jha As Motorola Mobility CEO - TechCrunch
With Google's purchase of Motorola nearing completion, some anonymous sources close to the situation have revealed that a management shakeup is in the works too. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha will be replaced by ...
Al Gore-backed VideoSurf bought by Microsoft for a reported $70 million - TechCrunch
One source who requested anonymity pegged it at $70 million too, though. VideoSurf raised $28 million from a couple of tech heavyweights, including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and her husband, SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg, along with Al Gore and ...
Samsung To Make Bada OS Open Source And Part Of Your Smart TV? - TechCrunch
Typical of the Wall Street Journal, this news comes straight from the mouth of “a person close to the situation,” but if true, it's a move that makes much more sense than buying up a completely separate platform. Samsung has been sitting on top of a ...
Google+ API Launch Still Months Away - TechCrunch
The timeframe, amorphous and vague as it is, was revealed by a Google+ project manager to a Google+ developer, who has asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. And it's certainly disappointing news for anxious Google+ enthusiasts and developers ...
Source: This Hulu/Yahoo Story Is BS - TechCrunch
But I've just received an unsolicited message from a source close to Yahoo that says it's completely untrue (probably because of all my digging the last week on this Yahoo story). Yahoo hasn't had any meaningful conversations with Hulu about a buyout, ...
Coupons.com Raises $200 Million At A Whopping $1 Billion Valuation - TechCrunch
The sizable investment comes at a supposed $1 billion valuation, and sources close to Coupons.com (who declined to be named) said that the valuation is based on $100 million in expected revenues for 2011, roughly double those of the prior year. ...
Eric Schmidt And Others Invest In Rich Media Display Ad Startup Spongecell - TechCrunch
The amount of the round was not disclosed but we heard from people familiar with the matter that the investment was just under $1 million. Spongecell transforms standard banner ads into rich-media-like interactive ads that can run in display ad formats ...
Investors Bet Another $10 Million On Fring's Ability To Rival Skype (+ Microsoft) - TechCrunch
The amount that was raised is actually not being disclosed, but sources close to the company tell us that fring secured another $10 million in venture capital, bringing its total of funding raised to well north of $30 million. We were also told fring's ...
Conduit Acquires Web Application Platform Wibiya For $45 Million: Sources - TechCrunch
Either way, what's really happening, according to solid sources close to the company, Conduit is in fact acquiring another Israeli startup in the Web app publishing and distribution space, namely Wibiya, and they added that the deal could close as ...
In Baffling Move, The Huffington Post Erects Paywall Solely For NYT Employees - TechCrunch
According to people familiar with the matter, all people at the NYT building today who try to access The Huffington Post won't be able to. Dear New York Times Employee, thank you for visiting The Huffington Post! We hope you've enjoyed your one free ...
The Twitter Story Fail - TechCrunch
WSJ: “JP Morgan Chase & Co. is in talks with Twitter Inc. to take a minority stake in the rapidly growing microblogging company, people familiar with the matter said…Discussions between JP Morgan and Twitter are continuing, and there is no guarantee a ...
With Facebook Comments, Twitter And Google Login Flew The Coop - TechCrunch
But both were scrapped in the final hours leading up to launch for unspecified reasons, according to people familiar with the matter. Actually, to those who have watched the space over the past several months, it's pretty clear why the options ...
Jack Ma Flies Thousands of Miles to Palo Alto, Still Doesn't Want to See Carol ... - TechCrunch
Another source close to the company, who requested anonymity, said Alibaba was here to meet with several big Silicon Valley companies about potential ...
Google Takes Another Big Step to Retain Employees: Autonomous Business Units - TechCrunch
Google has a new policy to fight it, according to several sources close to the company. A memo was reportedly sent out a few weeks ago to certain Google ...
AOL's New HomePage Design (Smuggled Screenshot) - TechCrunch
A source close to AOL (but not, you know, us) provided the screenshot below. As you can see, it maintains a consistent look and feel with the current ...
Here's the Public Google Doc With All Of MySpace's Traffic Analytics - TechCrunch
It is, according to an anonymous source that claims to work at MySpace, an internal MySpace document showing traffic and engagement by age band. ...
How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus New Apple Rumors - TechCrunch
“Apple, Inc. (AAPL) in negotiations to acquire Spotify,” read the tip that came in yesterday via email from an anonymous source. Most tips are just outright ...
Getting To The Bottom Of The Crazy Yahoo-Groupon Rumors - TechCrunch
A source close to Groupon tells me that there haven't been any serious acquisition discussions with Yahoo at all, and for Groupon to even consider an ...
Yahoo's Internal Three Year Plan: 1 Billion Users And $10 Billion In Revenue - TechCrunch
Those goals, we've heard from a source close to Yahoo: an increase in the number of unique visitors to Yahoo properties from today's 622 million to a cool 1 ...
Bartz in a China Shop: Has Yahoo's CEO Wrecked the Valley's Most Valuable ... - TechCrunch
And according to several sources close to both companies Carol Bartz is making a tense situation worse. Bartz has been widely criticized for Yahoo's lack of ...