http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:36:14 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_1 d08f2a7bcbb5ab72746b99d0a68756e8 Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we're thankful for on this day each year. And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs . I'm thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since. It wasn't at all a certainty that he would ever return to the company that he ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:24:46 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_2 7dbd4c1630960b4e8a8c66b2770c3de3 As part of its push to go more social, Google has been attempting to unify its various account profiles into one Google Profile. And now it's more useful. Google's Brad Fitzpatrick has just tweeted out that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenIDs. What this means is that you can sign into any site that accepts OpenID simply by using your ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:06:21 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_3 ab49ed317baf77d6eb84a468a250174d We've been doing some more digging on the definitive moves by Microsoft to woo newspapers over to Bing and away from Google, a story we broke two weeks ago . Since then there have been some follow-up by various media outlets, notably the Financial Times this week which confirmed that Microsoft had had discussions with News Corp to “de-index” ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:30:49 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_4 a782f3748d7464f5a1bac42f6c1624a1 We recently wrote about Sidebar, an app that wants to help smartphone users with the process of finding the perfect apps for their phones. Sidebar is debuting its first app and guess what? It's not an iPhone app-it's an Android app! While Sidebar's Android app is built for all Google-powered Android phones, the app has been configured specially ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:48:04 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_5 7f5ae400c224d7bc3345ada0e217cad2 [UK] Liverpool-based Little World Gifts wants to re-define virtual gifts. Only the company doesn't want us to use that word, instead preferring the term 'digital gifts' -- these aren't the typical tiny 2D icons that are gifted on sites like Facebook, they're 3D, touch-friendly and yes, you've guessed it, they run on the iPhone. Little World ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:21:48 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_6 7a5f84db2ae3370dd09da15634f65c22 Clixtr , a startup that first presented itself to a wide audience at this year's TechCrunch50 Conference ( our take ), kicked off things with a relatively limited offering - a paid iPhone app - but is now upping its game with the launch of an accompanying location-aware photo sharing website. It's also dropping the price of its iPhone ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:19:37 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_7 5d01fad54aee700b6a25cc455c88a0e0 Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:10 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_8 21ed5906e1f1da6a76d3b4d002df44c0 Apologies for the confusing headline, but I couldn't resist. This morning, long-time software maker Corel Corporation turned over full ownership to Corel Holdings, a limited partnership controlled by an affiliate of Vector Capital , majority investor of the company behind many familiar software programs like WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, WinZip, Paint ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:26:31 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_9 09234d4d4ab5f1cf0abd5451a95fe085 For most of us, the term 'smartbook' (a device that's somewhere in between a smartphone and a netbook) is nothing but the latest tech buzzword du jour. For German company Smartbook , however, it's apparently a chance to score some free publicity by vigilantly defending a multinational trademark and threatening to sue everyone who dares use it in ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:49:27 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_10 603980cf33728b5933b7ee2ad0b6982f SupportSpace , a company that provides on-demand remote tech support solutions, announced today that it has raised $10 million in funding. The round was led by Emergence Capital Partners and also included previous investors BRM Group and Gemini Israel . SupportSpace has raised $24.25M in total funding so far. Kevin Spain of Emergence Capital ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:09:25 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_11 735496d99e1a8fb381fddb534690930f The brains behind Yahoo Boss , a young engineer named Vik Singh, is leaving Yahoo to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Earlier this year, Singh was named to Technology Review' s 35 Under 35 list at the age of 24. Singh is exactly the kind of talent Yahoo should be trying to hold onto, but that is hard to do now that it ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:05:28 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_12 ca95776f51826723ebf6e0f524da2db3 If you've ever tried searching the web for financial advice, you probably know just how much junk there is out there. Sure, there may be a few diamonds in the rough, but oftentimes the best results go to the finance 'experts' who are good at SEO - not the ones who know what they're talking about. Investimonials is a new site launching this week ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:07:12 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_13 d0c95d2b79f61d8376f32667a9909dac I have something to admit: I've never been a big extension guy. When I was still using Firefox, I liked them, but the downside, browser bloat, turned me away. But now that we're starting to see the first steps of true extension support in Chrome, I think I could be swayed. While people have been developing extensions for Chrome for a little ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:29 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_14 6d5bbed5b9f5f64d0ee9b8d6fc696b4d Last month we saw the launch of TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon , the startup that lets you book local service providers directly from the web. Today it's getting some strong competition from a new startup called Thumbtack , a local service booking engine that's looking to offer both a comprehensive directory of providers and a greater degree of ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:38:26 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_15 0989c5f321e2128c073a2db4bde35b38 Business social network LinkedIn has hit a milestone in the UK, surpassing 3 million registered users in these parts. Kevin Eyres , Managing Director Europe at LinkedIn, announced the feat at a London event last night and on the company's blog this morning. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman attended the event as well, and told Reuters afterwards ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:18:36 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_16 97fda44dacbe47924fd252b3c3b865d4 Want to know what people are thankful for this Thanksgiving? You can be sure many will be Tweeting about it. Tomorrow if you search #thanksgiving or #thankful on Twitter search, you will get a good sense of what thanks people are sharing on Twitter. Or you can go to TurkeyTwitter , a site thrown together by Joshua Premuda which gathers all ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:02:43 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_17 a1cb073a45213ce9c6963f4386d825ba Online advertising revenues in the U.S. seem to be stabilizing. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers released third-quarter figures showing that online advertising in the U.S. approached $5.5 billion, up 1.7 percent from the second quarter of 2009, but still down 5.4 percent from the same quarter a year ago (which ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:20:56 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_18 bd55138ca929130aaa5a406193442250 [UK] Startup Weekend is the 58 hour-long conference where attendees made up of "developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists, and more" don't just talk, they actually build something. The projects, of which nine were completed at the London event last week, are developed over a very long weekend - ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:05:56 +0000 http://www.megite.com/techcrunch1/1259277914/1#item_19 de5739d3a6c5ae4f10f31662c3a9cc42 KIDO'Z , the Israeli company behind the eponymous media browser for kids , has released a new version of its program and insists that we now refer to it as a Web OS for kids instead. It's certainly not an invalid point, since the new KIDO'Z incorporates communication features besides content consumption elements only, and the company is making ... (Read on Source) ]]>