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Icahn Backs Down From Yahoo Proxy Fight In Return For Three Yahoo Board Seats

Carl Icahn and Yahoo have come to a settlement over control of Yahoo’s board. In return for three board seats, Icahn has agreed to withdraw his alternative slate of nominees and back down from...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, yahoo
The Friendfeedization Of Facebook

As Facebook continues to roll out the full version of its new user profiles, it’s becoming clear that their primary goal isn’t, as they said in May, to simply create a cleaner user...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, facebook, friendfeed
Investor Activist Urges Yahoo Shareholders To Split The Difference Between Icahn’s Board Picks and

Activist shareholder Eric Jackson has some advice for all the little guys out there holding Yahoo shares: Come August 1, split the difference on the Yahoo board between the current directors and...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, yahoo
Start Streaming: Qik Opens To The Public

Qik, the video service that streams live feeds from your mobile phone, has finally launched its public beta. The site has also introduced a number of new features to the service, including support...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, crunchgear, events, qik
iLike Launches Full Song Playback and Ad Platform

iLike, the music service with a massive following on Facebook and increasing popularity elsewhere, has introduced full-song playback on its flagship site, iLike.com. Through its partnership with...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, events, ilike, rhapsody
OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites

OpenDNS, a San Francisco based startup founded by Minor Ventures and David Ulevitch, first launched in mid-2006 as a free tool to speed up web surfing and protect users from phishing and other...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, opendns
Japan’s Mixi: A Social Network As A Purely Local Phenomenon

Japan’s biggest social network is called Mixi, launched in February 2004 by the company of the same name. Drawing in one in five web users in the country, Mixi now boasts over 15 million members. The...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, mixi
StudiVZ Won’t Comment On Facebook Lawsuit, But Will Talk Smack In General

StudiVZ, the Facebook clone (and by clone, we mean exact duplicate) in Germany, says in an email that they still havn’t received the lawsuit complaint filed by Facebook on Friday. The lawsuit...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, facebook, studivz
Startup Job Site Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relauches As Startuply

New Y Combinator startup Startuply launches today. It’s a free job listing service aimed squarely at small startups, which have a lot of trouble getting the attention of new engineering...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, jowba, startuply, y-combinator
Tesla Motors Unveils Jaw-Dropping Menlo Park Showroom

Tesla Motors, the automobile startup with backers that include Sergey Brin and Larry Page, held a party tonight to mark the launch of its Menlo Park storefront. The store, which is the...

Started in TechCrunch • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: company & product profiles, crunchgear, tesla motors