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Way Too Competitive: Tech Gurus Flock To World Series Of Poker

TechCrunch  Jul 05 09

6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year's World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup entrepreneurs. We're tracking four of them, plus any others that pop up. This is David Sacks' third WSOP. Sacks, a former PayPal exec and the CEO of Geni/Yammer, walked away with nothing two years ago. Last year he took home $25k in prize money, and twittered every hand. This year he's way up after the first day, with $91k in chips. That likely puts him in the top 10% of players. Full story...

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The Location War May Be Even, But Foursquare Dominates Twitter

TechCrunch  3 hours ago

As we noted a couple days ago, the so-called "Location War" was essentially an even match throughout the first few days of the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

The Worldwide Telescope Comes To Bing Maps

TechCrunch  3 hours ago

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Google Makes Exchanging Microsoft Exchange For Google Apps A Bit Easier

TechCrunch  4 hours ago

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Mobile Social Network MocoSpace Now 11 Million Members Strong

TechCrunch  4 hours ago

Mobile social network MocoSpace now has a count of 11 million members, with 500,000 members forming new friendships every day on MocoSpace.

Complaints Against Yelp’s “Extortion” Practices Grow Louder

TechCrunch  5 hours ago

Yelp has been hit with another lawsuit, the third in a matter of a few weeks. Similar to the previous complaints, this lawsuit filed by Boris Levitt, the owner of Renaissance Furniture Restoration in San Francisco, claims that Yelp's "unfair and unethical conduct in promoting, marketing and advertising its website as maintaining unbiased reviews" is unlawful and hurt his business.

URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web – Especially Facebook’s FB.me

TechCrunch  5 hours ago

It's hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they're here to stay - for better or worse.

AOL Partners With Celebrity Chefs To Launch Recipe And Foodie Site KitchenDaily

TechCrunch  6 hours ago

AOL has recruited a few celebrity chefs and foodies; including Curtis Stone, Food & Wine's Gail Simmons, and Marcus Samuelsson; and the famed Culinary Institute of America to launch food website KitchenDaily.

Former Yahoo Execs Launch nPario To Help Companies Understand Consumers

TechCrunch  6 hours ago

A new startup dubbed nPario and formed by ex-Yahoo and SAS executives opened its business operations today.

Mac Pricing Leak? Perhaps Updated Macs Are Inbound.

TechCrunch  6 hours ago

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UTest Finds 908 Bugs In Web And Mobile Apps Of Major U.S. TV Networks

TechCrunch  7 hours ago

Software testing marketplace uTest today announced the results of its so-called "TV Networks Bug Battle" competition.



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