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UpstartThis — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:46:00 GMT

Working on several great article leads, will be posting very soon. Thanks for visiting the site!

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The Face Behind Facebook on Today's Show

UpstartThis — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:35:13 GMT

NBC's Today Show with Meredith Vieira interviewed Mark Zuckerberg. Couple of interesting facts: Mark did not want to confirm the rumor about Yahoo's offering of 1 Billion DollarsWhile Mark is the...

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Web 2.0 Bubbled Trouble

UpstartThis — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:16:27 GMT

It is all over the news that many new startups are getting funded or acquired. You probably heard or already thinking that we are in some sort of Web 2.0 bubble, and it may be the time to begin...

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Microsoft Surface Computer

UpstartThis — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:30:53 GMT

Microsoft Surface, the new way of interacting with the touch screen interface. Amazingly simple and almost fun to use, quickly reminds of the futuristic movies like Deja Vu or Minority Report. Check...

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How to loose 27 million dollars

UpstartThis — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:22:08 GMT

Friendster is the recent scapegoat for the biggest Dot Com flop since Pets.com. Jonathan Abrams, founder, is the one taking most of the blame. While Abrams' new project Socializr (Evite copycat) is...

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Silicon Valley Rock Stars

UpstartThis — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:24:28 GMT

Lets review the list of Silicon Valley top Rock Star personalities who really made it. Kevin Rose (Digg) Valued at around $60 million based on the August's BusinessWeek article. Prior to Digg Kevin...

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LinkShare aquires Traffic Strategies

UpstartThis — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:15:01 GMT

Online leads generation firm, TrafficStrategies.com is being acquired by LinkShare for an undisclosed amount. Traffic Strategies was a privately held company based out of Tampa, founded in 2001. This...

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Russian Valley getting Silicon'ed

UpstartThis — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:32:07 GMT

BVPEF, or simply Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund has sold 20% stake in the leading Russian e-commerce store Ozon to Swiss venture capitalist firm Index Ventures. Ozon, which is based out of...

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Gates and Jobs on the D conference

UpstartThis — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:03:07 GMT

It was the first appearance of Bill Gates and Steve together at the same conference. This was probably one of not many iconic moments of technology, as the two most prominent pioneers of technology...

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CBS on the rampage with new aquisition of Last.fm

UpstartThis — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:14:30 GMT

CBS is paying 280 Million dollars for Last.fm. Last is claiming to revolutionize the music by mixing in the community rankings of its user base. Competing with sites like Pandora, iLike and others...

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PayPlay makes the day with DRM-Free music

UpstartThis — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:15:45 GMT

Looks like Amazon and Apple's DRM-Free music has more competition. PayPlay revamped their site to support 1.3+ million songs priced from $0.88 (starting from 192kbps MP3). PayPlay was launched in...

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The social factor of site metrics

UpstartThis — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:26:48 GMT

In the recent article from San Jose Mercury News Scott Kirsner writes ... many of us have become obsessed with audience metrics of our own, seeking a tally of how many people we're...

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Spotting trends

UpstartThis — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:45:40 GMT

Ever heard of a little kid slaying a monster hog? Well if you did not, it is certainly all over Google's Hot Trends. List of keywords from Google's top 100 25. hogzilla 2 48. ...

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CDW may be bought out by private equity firms

UpstartThis — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:39:00 GMT

Update: CDW is indeed being bought out. The pricetag of 7.3 Billion dollars will be paid by Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) whose portfolio already included Paypal, XM Sattelite Radio and...

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Google Buys Greenborder

UpstartThis — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:17:37 GMT

Google is getting into the anti-virus arena with its latest acquisition of GreenBorder. As the "industry's first Desktop DMZ software for windows" GreenBorder pronounces to keep safe...

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How do you Google?

UpstartThis — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:30:41 GMT

Personalized Searching offers a way to spot Trends in your personal search history. Go to the following link : http://www.google.com/history and click on Trends. You can view your most popular...

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Silicon Valley's Latest Financing Deals

UpstartThis — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:57:26 GMT

Buzznet has approximately 6 million users and is a photo-sharing social networking site. Buzznet raised $6 million of financing led by Redpoint Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners. $2.5...

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Web 2.0 Report From The Economist

UpstartThis — Wed, 23 May 2007 03:58:50 GMT

The Economist has posted its research about how large enterprise companies (average size is 2.5 Billion dollars) are using Web 2.0 and how far do they see it taking them. Overall it is a good...

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WallStrip video blog going for $5 Million

UpstartThis — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:54:14 GMT

CBS is buying a comical video blogging site oriented towards finance market for $5 million. Here are some of the comments its viewers and reviewers posted : “I had little interest in the...

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Ajax Bootcamp at Web Design World Seattle

UpstartThis — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:42:07 GMT

" If you’re a forward-thinking Web architect or designer that needs to build compelling, user-centric, Ajax-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), then this fast-paced hands-on training workshop is...

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