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Now some of us have been lucky enough to test out the Sidekick 3 - for instance, The Engadget Boys and Phone Scoop Gang - but even they could not have predicted the mad dash for the new Danger Hiptop, aka T-Mobile Sidekick 3.
One of these puppies just sold for a whopping $4050 on eBay. [...]

This past week, while I was away in London, there was a frenzy of activity around the “instant messaging” client. Microsoft introduced its Microsoft Live Messenger Beta which is some rudimentary form cross talks with Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo opened up its IM and introduced new ways to add widgets to its client. Skype and Paypal [...]

Sequoia Capital Partners, which normally focuses on US-based start-ups is reported to have made an investment in Stardoll.com (formerly known as Paperdoll Heaven.) The total amount of funds invested in the company remain unknown, but highly reliable sources say that Sequoia Capital General Partner Mark Kvamme invested in the company.
Back in February 2006, Index Ventures [...]

Put this one in the category - breaking but unconfirmed news. A tipster says that the seven-person Google Talk aka GTalk team has won Google’s Founder Award, which means not only recognition within the company, but also some serious GMoney. Google spokesperson declined to comment and in an email pointed out that the company did [...]

Photobucket, the plain vanilla photo hosting site is now officially the king of online photo business. It now has a whopping 44% of the total market, ahead of old timers - Yahoo, Webshots and Flickr. According to data collected by Hitwise, “its share of visits increased by 34% in the four months from February [...]

CNN Money’s Paul La Monica thinks it is time for New York Times, the Gray Lady of Journalism to join the merge-or-be-purged trend sweeping across old media. Given the severe under-performance of NYT stock, well, he is right.
The New York Times Co. chief executive officer Janet Robinson has different ideas and wants to do a [...]