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On Tuesday, as rumors were spreading about YouTube's plans to launch a paywall we reminded folks that Google had actually tried this twice before and no one paid.
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Too often, it seems like arguments over the role of the internet in the music industry get boiled down to what I'd guess is a false dichotomy.
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Great post by Zach Holman of Github: You Won’t Regret Positive Feedback: I think our industry does feedback really poorly.
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Spicy Horse games has announced what their next game will be and it is called Hell Invaders. If the name Spicy Horse sounds familiar, that is because they are responsible for the Alice series of games as well as Crazy Fairies for Android and the currently in beta Akameiro: Demon Hunter which is also slated for release at some point onto Android as well.
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For the last few years Europe has been emerging as a powerful sources of new global startups. Hell, why else would be doing TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin this year? And we've seen efforts to recognise the heroes of the scene, with a proliferation of startup conferences, as well as awards, such as The Europas (which I chair).
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YouTube's been making us scream "WTF?" since 2005
But it's not like you needed us to remind you of that.
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Here's one for you: how is it that some of the smartest, richest, market-savviest companies on the planet - allegedly - can't seem to figure out how to name their products in a way that isn't strikingly confusing?
The "new iPad" is not to be confused with the iPad 2.
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Powerpoint presentations. Not once in the history of humanity has someone said “Oh man, I LOVE giving Powerpoint presentations” non-sarcastically.
More from TechCrunch Today in New York and London, HTC finally took the wraps off of its latest flagship device. Yes, that would be the HTC One, and it has finally arrived.
More from IntoMobile What the hell did we all do without IMDb? Like, SRSLY? Did we have to actually remember what movies people had been in before? Did we all have a really geeky mate we only hung out with because he.
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In a very distant future an alien spaceship will come across one of the Voyager spacecrafts.
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Office—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, the old frenemies—are out of beta and ready to buy.
More from Gizmodo US To say that the Android-powered OUYA game console has garnered some serious attention is a hell of an understatement, and that's sure to be the case as developer units keep trickling out into the wild.
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North Korea's tentative steps into the online world are always a little mysterious — the strange choices in the videos uploaded to YouTube, for example, or the 2013 website redesign that made the country's official news organization look like it was a relic from 2003.
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There's really no other way to slice it -- Taiwanese smartphone OEM HTC has had a difficult 2012. More than a few people have already weighed in on the company's spotty 2012, but CEO Peter Chou recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal to offer his take on the company's rough patch.
More from TechCrunch The enterprise -- I get a sideways glance when I tell people it's what I cover. People want to know why I find it so compelling.
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