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Techmeme to Leaderboard - a blog ranking system

Techcrunch is running a story on Techmeme's new blog ranking system. Technorati was the defacto blog ranking system so far, but as per Michael Arrington, the new Leaderboard from Techmeme may the last more...
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Angel Round could get painful for some

Michael Arrington discusses the case of the Israel based startup 5min, which first went in with angel funding and now has gotten $5 million in VC funding. Its angel round was painful since the angels more...
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Why Are Founders Leaving Social Networks?

Michael Arrington brings up this question with two examples of founders or execs leaving second tier social networks - Jeanine LeFlore, Piczo’s VP of Products and Marketing and Bebo’s co-founder and more...
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Startup Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep

Michael Arrington reveals that travel startup Kayak is buying its rival SideStep for $200 Million. SideStep and Kayak are the two leaders in the discount travel search space (along with Mobissimo and more...
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Things Are Looking Gooood At Startup Schwag

Michael Arrington re-visits the startup Startup Schwag after a few months to examine what's going on at their end. This company offers a service that sends users startup-branded tshirts and stickers every more...
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Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far)

Oooh. Michael Arrington says that the brouhaha over Facebook buying Plaxo is all false so far and that even though Plaxo is up for sale (since quite some time actually), this deal is not exactly history. more...
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Source Says: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened”

Michael Arrington follows up his previous story on Bebo. He says that Bebo, which is the second largest social network in the UK behind Facebook, either signed a deal, or is sending out false messages more...
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An Outsider’s Flawed View Of Silicon Valley

When Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman wrote a blog post a couple of days ago comparing Silicon Valley unfavorably to the Seattle tech scene, it raised some attention. Now, our own Michael Arrington takes on the more...
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Fred Wilson - Hypocritical, Wrong and Conflicted

The daggers are out. VC Fred Wilson came out with a blog post that criticized bloggers and singled out Matt Marshall of VentureBeat and Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch for this. And now, Michael Arrington more...
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Bloggers are raising money and eyebrows

Caution: A nice long post by Michael Arrington about bloggers raising money and how the landscape could shape up. Just a month ago VentureBeat reported a $320,000 raise. In 2007 we saw Sugar Inc. ($10 more...
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