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Chad Dickerson To Leave Yahoo For Etsy

Chad Dickerson, a long time Yahoo exec and the head of their Brickhouse special projects group, is leaving the company to become the CTO of Etsy, a a website that allows users to buy and sell...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, etsy, yahoo
TicketLeap Gets $2 Million For Modest-Sized Event Ticketing

TicketLeap, a service that helps promoters sell tickets to their events though a self-serve platform, has raised $2 million in a Series A funding round led by MentorTech Ventures and Ben Franklin...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, ticketleap
Sugar Publishing Breaks Up With NBC, Brings Ad Sales In House

Fast growing women-focused blog network Sugar Publishing announced that they’ve terminated their year-old ad sales relationship with NBC. All ad sales will now be via an in-house sales team,...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles
Propeller 2.0 Launches: Ditching The Vote Count, Adding A Mascot

Propeller, AOL’s Digg-like news site, launches version 2.0 later this morning. The site sports a new design and logo and now has a mascot - described as “part professor, part citizen...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, aol, digg, propeller, yahoo buzz
Ok, We Have Our First DNA-Based Dating Service: GenePartner

It was only a matter of time before someone launched a dating site that looks for potential matches based on DNA compatibility. That time is apparently today with the launch of GenePartner (ok,...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, 23andme, genepartner
GitHub unites Version Control with the Pastie

GitHub, the popular service for hosting Git repositories, has taken a step outside the box and improved upon the classic pastie service (place for coders to post code snippets). To do that, GitHub...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, crunchgear, git, github, pastie
Forget Crowd-Sourced T-shirts: Print Objects In 3D

So first there was the online creation of pretty simple items like business cards and T-shirts - businesses which cut out the old middle-man way of doings things. Soon there will be a way to create...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, events, shapeways
CasualCafe Launches Elaborate Flash Games, Facebook Integration

CasualCafe, a developer of Facebook applications, has launched a pair of elaborate Flash games on its flagship site that it says demonstrate the company’s “browser games of uncommon size...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, casualcafe
Justin.TV Reaches 1 Million Users

Justin.tv, one of the first live video streaming sites, has announced its 1 millionth registered user since its launch in March 2007. Justin.tv has a number competitors, namely Stickam, Mogulus, and...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, justin.tv
Ex-GameSpotters Launch GiantBomb, The Gaming Encyclopedia

Last winter GameSpot, one of the web’s largest video game sites, was embroiled in a scandal that led to the loss of a number of veteran employees and, as far as many gamers are concerned, any...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, gamespot, giantbomb