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X-Googlers Ready To Start It Up
Google (GOOG) employees are in that phase where they can exercise their options, lock in their profits and high tail out of the Googleplex. With their Mansions and Maseratis paid for, it is time for them to go start something new. Take for instance Cuill, a search start-up co-founded by Tom Costello and Anna [...]

Its All In The [Search] Packaging
Back in the 1990s, searching for something on the web was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Then Google (GOOG) came along, and it was as if someone had handed us a magnet with which finding the good (and the relevant) became downright easy.The post-bust social media boom, however, is bringing an end [...]

Verizon Sues, Google Expresses Dismay Over 700 MHz Auction
Verizon Wireless, a division of Verizon Communications (VZ), was unhappy with the way things were turning out for the 700 MHz auction and as such has decided to use the legal system to try and block the open-access provisions tacked onto the hotly debated auction by the Federal Communications Commission.Verizon called the rules “arbitrary and [...]

Vanity Fair (Re) Discovers Tech
You know things are getting downright frothy when Vanity Fair rediscovers technology and starts giving way too much attention to technology titans by including them in its annual New Establishment list. The bible of frivolous has out done itself this time; it has also included a new micro-list, The Next Establishment. Perhaps it couldn’t [...]

Austin, Traffic Delays, Last.fm, & Excel Tips
The real green mayor, and no not Gavin Newsom. (Earth2Tech)Getting the most out of Microsoft Excel (Webworkerdaily)How Last.fm learnt to survive on next to nothing. (FoundRead)Yahoo pulls the plug on Mashup Debate? (NewTeeVee)What’s up with Smart Charging? (Earth2Tech)

Can Amazon Make Startupping A Science?
Amazon (AMZN) is trying to turn the art of internet startups into a science. At an open event at Stanford yesterday, a couple hundred or so entrepreneurs, VCs, and developers talked about how Amazon Web Services — cheap and elastic storage, computing, message queuing, and payments — could change, or is already changing, their businesses.“We’re [...]

Apple To Sell 3 Million iPhones By End of 2007
UBS Research analysts are predicting that recent price cuts will push Apple (AAPL) iPhone sales to a total of around 3 million by end of 2007. They expect 950,000 phones sold during the third quarter of 2007 (ends September 30, 2007) and 2 million in the fourth quarter of 2007. Their previous forecast was 850,000 [...]

Some Details About Google Related Genome Start-up, 23andMe
Did you know that Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone can store your entire genome? I learnt this earlier today when reading through Matthew Herper’s piece on 23andMe over on Forbes.com.23andMe is a company co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The company wants to help bring genome information to the consumers and recently raised [...]