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WASHINGTON — The Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an "enthusiasm gap" that has dogged the GOP all year.McCain leads Democrat Barack Obama by 50%-46% among registered voters, th (Read More)
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Twitter PaymentsTwitter’s not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year? By listening to me.Twitter should take full advantage of their messaging platform, user base and user disposition to lead in the P2P mobile payments space. They can become the next PayPal, and are (Read More)
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Craig Stoltz / Web 2.Oh. . .really?:Rick Sanchez Debuts Twitter on TV — Today at 3 p.m. EST, CNN's promiscuous social media adopter Rick Sanchez debuts a TV show called Rick Sanchez Direct. — This may be of some cultural significance, in that that the program appears to be about/from/in/around [insert your favorite (Read More)
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews says John McCain gave a “clear confession” of what he is going to do to change the mistakes of the past eight years. (Read More)
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Seth Grahame-Smith: 8 Reasons Sarah Palin is More Qualified than Barack Obama [Huffington Post] http://bit.ly/4q61Qu. (Read More)
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"Change is coming" to Washington, he promised the Republican National Convention."I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again," McCain said in remarks prepared for the a prime time address. "I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not," he said of his rival for the Wh (Read More)
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Although all new startups face challenges, those in India could be alleviated with a little help from fellow entrepreneurs and some government support. (Read More)
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TechCrunch :
You’d think that with the FCC conducting so many wireless spectrum auctions, that all that spectrum sold off for billions of dollars would be all used up. The sad truth is that many companies who win spectrum at auction end up sitting on it. All of this “fallow” spectrum is a big problem. A Florida star (Read More)
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(CBS) The presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain is now even at 42 percent, according to a new CBS News poll conducted Monday-Wednesday of this week. Twelve percent are undecided according to the poll, and one percent said they wouldn't vote.This is in contrast to a poll conducted last weekend, where the Oba (Read More)
TechCrunch :
socialmedian, which has come under fire as of late for trying to use Twitter as means of raising $500,000 in venture funding, announced Thursday that it has launched its first major upgrade since the company started and its improvements will finally address some of the concerns its users have had since its inception.First o (Read More)
TechCrunch :
So the tech and geek crowd is a little underwhelmed by the new $300 million Microsoft advertising campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld that kicked off tonight. It’s mostly content free, with just one mention of Microsoft near the end. It’s a far cry from the brilliant Microsoft v. mac ads that Apple has run over th (Read More)
TechCrunch :
Dropbox is one of those infuriating startups that just won’t show us much of what they’re up to. We first saw them at Y Combinator demo day in August 2007, and talked to them again in March when they went into private beta. It looks like Sequoia was on them fast though. Last September, we’ve learned, the c (Read More)
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Sarah Palin, the Republican VP candidate, Governor of Alaska and recent mayor of a very small town has been in the crosshairs of the national media and the Obama campaign since John McCain chose her to be his running mate just a few days ago. Some would argue that she absolutely should be under intense scrutiny as candidate (Read More)
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We’re all gearing up for TechCrunch50 next week, and with all the startups and venture capitalists at the conference we thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about what it takes to get VC funding these days and whether or not venture capital even maters as much as it once did. I will be grilling a panel of V (Read More)