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Dice Reports Murky Waters For Tech Jobs
Posted 1 hour, 46 minutes ago on TechCrunch
After months of dismal unemployment numbers, this morning’s continued growth in the unemployment rate from 9.4% in May to 9.5% for th...

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The Infamous 2009 LimeWire Pizza Fiasco
Posted 2 hours, 28 minutes ago on TechCrunch
July 1, 2009 - the day the music wars started in earnest. Last night the guys from Dovecote Records, a small music label based in N...

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Twitter Makes Hashtags More #Useful
Posted 3 hours, 22 minutes ago on TechCrunch
You may have noticed that Twitter has started hyperlinking hashtags. Those are words preceded by a “#” which denote what ...

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One More Thing: The New Facebook iPhone App Will Allow Video Uploads
Posted 3 hours, 59 minutes ago on TechCrunch
Yesterday, we wrote about what Facebook was planning for the next major release of its iPhone app, version 3.0. The big update will contain 15 new feat...

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Google Blog Search Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Posted 4 hours, 45 minutes ago on TechCrunch
Last fall Google launched a revamped version of its Blog Search, converting the site’s frontpage into a automated news portal similar to sites like Techmeme. It has its fair share of issues (for one, it’s...

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FriendFeed Makes Its Search Results Real-Time Too
Posted 5 hours, 13 minutes ago on TechCrunch
Ever since its redesign a few months ago, FriendFeed has been one of the standard-bearers of the real-time web. That’s because while a lo...

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Google App Engine Broken For 4 Hours And Counting
Posted 6 hours, 31 minutes ago on TechCrunch
A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google App Engine was “seeing eleva...

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And Yet More Proof Of Why AT&T Needs To Keep That iPhone Exclusivity
Posted 6 hours, 58 minutes ago on TechCrunch
An internal AT&T memo that was leaked today is full of very impressive number regarding the iPhone 3GS — numbers that once again show why AT&T’s exclus...

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Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design
Posted 7 hours, 12 minutes ago on TechCrunch
What is the best way to sift through a stream of information? The list view seems to be the most popular because it is information...

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Twitter Increases Rate Limits by 50%
Posted 7 hours, 14 minutes ago on ProgrammableWeb
Your Twitter mashup may have just got 50% more real-time content. And if you follow many people, you may have already noticed an incr...

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