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Ning, thanks to the pedigree of its co-founder, Marc Andreessen, has been under close scrutiny by the Silicon Valley cognoscenti. The Palo Alto-based start-up has played its cards close to its chest, a move that has left many scratching their heads and wondering what is Ning.
Ning has built a platform that allowed everyone (from novices [...]

Liz pointed this out - Apple is advertising products (aka iPhone) that are not going to be on the market for a while. It is unable to meet its own self-imposed deadlines and release products on time, aka AppleTV. (I have forgotten how long ago they introduced this device.. wasn’t it sometime last year.) Maybe [...]

My favorite day planning tool, 30Boxes, is one year old. Happy birthday and congratulations to the 83 Degrees team. Here is my first review. They have come a long way. Lazy bums don’t even have a blog post up yet.

TellMe co-founder Angus Davis has denied that the company has been acquired by Microsoft. “We are an independent company and we have not been acquired,” he says, pointing out that there have been a lot of rumors swirling around the company.
TellMe, is one of the likely IPO candidates and last week was linked with Goldman [...]

Several of the Iowa telecom service providers who have been named as defendants by AT&T in the ongoing Free Calls controversy have filed legal claims of their own, suing AT&T for more than $12 million in total unpaid bills, non-payments that the companies claim have caused “significant, ongoing harm.”

Why is CBS investing $7 million in Electric Sheep, a company that creates corporate projects for virtual worlds like Second Life? Head over to GigaGamez for the scoop in Wagner James Au’s post, which includes an interview with Electric Sheep CEO Sibley Verbeck.