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Web 2.0 Startup Gets £10 Funding Round from Mate's Dad.

Web 2.0 Startup Gets £10 Funding Round from Mate’s Dad.

Sunday, February 15, 2009 17:18

Who says it's all doom and gloom when it comes to VC funding in the current economic climate?  Wank.io, the hottest location-based, micro-blogging productivity tool, which is in pre-alpha invite-only mode, just secured a 5th round of funding from Mr Trimble, the father of the CEO's best mate. [caption id="attachment_424" align="alignleft" ...

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Google Android Eats Owner. Blows Up Police Helicopter. Still on the Rampage.

Google Android Eats Owner. Blows Up Police Helicopter. Still on the Rampage.

Friday, February 13, 2009 10:26

Over-enthusiastic Google employees accidentally released the Google Android into the wild last night. The 30-foot tall, fire-breathing, laser-eyed robot with the head of Larry Page and a heart of great search relevance is currently being taken down by the US military, coastguard and a mob of angry Twitterers armed with ...

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Facebook to Make Money Selling Your Data to Your Mom

Facebook to Make Money Selling Your Data to Your Mom

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 6:28

Facebook's perpetually 24-year-old founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced today that they have plans to monetize their enormous user base by selling your private Facebook data to your mum. Mothers, who are reportedly desperate to keep an endless all-seeing maternal eye on their children FOREVER, have up til now been stumped with how ...

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Survey : Grandmas are Clueless About Cloud Computing

Survey : Grandmas are Clueless About Cloud Computing

Sunday, February 1, 2009 18:26

Saga Holidays, who specialise in holidays for the over 50s,  have recently published a survey on the latest technological revolution to hit the internet - cloud computing. Saga interviewed 12 grandmothers between the ages of 66 and 82 and discovered that most were shockingly clueless about what the benefits of cloud ...

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AOL Puts Bebo up for Sale as Parts

AOL Puts Bebo up for Sale as Parts

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 17:44

AOL CEO, Mr Aol, confirmed rumors that their $800m investment in Bebo, a sort of Teletubby version of Facebook, was 'a bit silly'. Bebo will, as speculated by TechCrunch, be put up for sale by its parent organisation but rather than being sold as an ongoing concern, it will ...

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'What recession?

‘What recession?”, Says CEO of Online Pet-Dating Startup

Sunday, January 25, 2009 5:55

Despite the dire economic times and contraction of advertising spends across all industries, the internet start-up world remains somehow shielded from these external forces and any sort of reality check. Experts are calling this the 'head-in-sand' model of market development where by ignoring what is actually going on in the world, ...

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Snopes.com Debunked as a Hoax

Snopes.com Debunked as a Hoax

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:48

Legendary urban legend debunking site www.snopes.com has been revealed to be a hoax after all. After nearly 14 years patrolling the internet highways with a truth flashlight and de-misinformation nightstick, website owners Barbara and David P. Mikkelson finally came clean last night and admitted the whole thing was ...

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