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Speculation about Twitter’s new round of financing is leading everyone to speculate on Twitter’s actual penetration into the “mainstream,” or lack thereof.
Hitwise says web visits have increased 8x in the last year, albeit from a minuscule base. Compete shows about 900,000 U.S. monthly website visitors. Comscore puts the worldwide number at 1.3 million unique monthly […]

In March we wrote a preliminary list of the people Microsoft will propose as alternate board of directors in the event their acquisition efforts go hostile.
See our recent interview with Citi analyst Mark Mahaney who discusses the probable outcomes to Microsoft’s effort.
Microsoft is proposing ten new board members, plus two alternates (here’s the current […]

Cortera, a company that specializes in affordable solutions for business and corporate intelligence, has raised $8 Million in a round led by CIBC Capital Partners, Fidelity Ventures, and Battery Ventures.
Cortera (formerly eCredit) makes Quicklook, a service that provides information relevant to credit analysis, and TREE, a navigational tool that visually represents a company’s organization. […]

GroupTweet is a service that let’s users send private Twitter messages to a group of other users. It’s works great, unless you screw up and accidentally enter your normal Twitter credentials into the site instead of the credentials for a new Twitter account you create for the service.
If you accidentally put in your normal […]

MOG has announced that it received a $2.8M strategic investment from Universal Music Group and The Angels’ Forum. We’ve also heard that Sony BMG was also part of the round, which means two major record labels have come together to invest in the same online music venture.
Music afficianados can use MOG to blog about their […]

Is Microsoft finally learning to love the penguin? After years of fighting Linux and denying its very usefulness, Microsoft has recently changed its tactics. It is trying to be more open, even if that’s an attempt to appease European regulators. And today, it is announcing the beta of new data center management tools […]

If you’re like me, and I know you are, you love Rock Band. The rest of those guys can have their GTA IV. I’ll be where I belong, behind a cheap-o drum kit with a crappy kick pedal.
There are lots of us, so many in fact that there’s now a social network just for us […]

Iron Man Exclusive Trailer
CrunchGear and TechCrunch are hosting a special event tomorrow, April 30 (Wednesday) in San Francisco - a special screening of the movie Iron Man, two days before the official May 2 release.
We’ve rented out the largest theater we could find in the area - The AMC Metreon in San Francisco, which will […]

The co-founders of once-hot video startup Metacafe, Arik Czerniak (pictured with his son) and Ofer Adler, have left the company and cashed out their shares for $5 million, according to an article in the Israeli paper The Marker (in Hebrew). Czerniak stepped down as CEO in February, 2007, when he was replaced by […]

Shopping on eBay is more like navigating a street marketplace than visiting a department store. Disparate vendors sell their wares without any real coordination. As a result, buyers must visit each and everyone of them to ensure that they’re getting the best deal. And with each visit, they must cope and make sense of new […]