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According to a recent article by TechCrunch, a judge has ordered the creators of ConnectU to pay Quinn Emmanuel, the firm that represented them in the Facebook case, $13 million. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra are the three who co-founded HarvardConnection, which was later...

How much is online news worth to consumers? That's the question the Times of London and other publications are asking themselves. Ultimately, News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS) decided that the Times' website was worth the price of a subscription fee and lost four million readers in the process....

According to a recent TechCrunch article, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) launched PubIt!, which is a platform that offers independent publishers and authors a way to digitally distribute their works through BN.com and the Barnes & Noble eBookstore. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has a similar...

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced that it has agreed to acquire TechCrunch, Inc., the company that owns and operates TechCrunch and its network of websites dedicated to technology news, information and analysis. TechCruch is run by Michael Arrington AOL is up slightly on the news at $24.17

Smart phone maker Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) has done an about face on letting governments have access to its Blackberry email access Tech Crunch reports. Initially RIM had refused to give governments such as Saudia Arabia, United Arab Emirates, India and others access to its customers data...

iSuppli has concluded from their research that it costs $188 to manufacture one iPhone 4. The estimate is very low and explains how Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is able to benefit from economies of scale and make large margins on low cost products. Apple is able to get a Gyroscope chip at $2.60, which...

In a series of developments at Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the Vice-President of Search Consumer Products, Larry Cornett, announced his departure on his personal blog. According to TechCrunch, this comes two weeks after layoffs of a portion of the Search team, which may be connected to the deal...

Web and mobile messaging service provider eBuddy has crossed the 50 million downloads mark for its eBuddy Mobile Messenger app. After Facebook, eBuddy is the second app to reach the 50 million mark. According to TechCrunch, GetJar has said that it offers more than 65,000 mobile applications across...

Earlier today Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) announced it was acquiring AdMob for approximately $700 million. On the heels of that acquisition, our friend Mike Arrington is reporting that Google has also acquired Gizmo5 for $30 million in cash. Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5,...