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The 2009 TechCrunch 50 conference was held this week, and 50 start-ups each had a chance to make a presentation, and then the judges picked one grand-prize winner at the end of the whole thing to win $50,000.
The winner this year, was a company called Redbeacon, which just happens to have been founded by three ex-Googlers – Ethan Anderson, Yaron Binur, and Aaron Lee, who were product managers and engineers with the Internet giant.
A number of former Rocky Mountain News staffers have announced the launch of indenvertimes.com, an online news site with the aim of keeping the Rocky alive.
The E.W. Scripps Co. closed the Rocky Mountain News last month after failing to find a qualified buyer.
To launch the site, In Denver Times needs 50,000 subscribers by April 23, 2009, the 150th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain News. If that goal is reached, the full site will launch on Monday, May 4, 2009.
Everybody knew it was coming, but today, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman announced her announced she has formed an exploratory committee that will see her running for Governor of California in 2010. Whitman is a fifty-two year old Republican, and aims to replace John Matrix himself – Arnold Schwarzenegger.
AOL has named former Yahoo sales executive, Greg Coleman President of its advertising business Platform- A.
"Greg Coleman is perfectly suited to build on the foundation we created at Platform-A and drive branded display sales across our fast-growing MediaGlow programming network," said Randy Falco, AOL Chairman and CEO.
The shortest drivable route between the headquarters of Google and Yahoo is a little more than five miles long, taking people around a golf course, Moffett Federal Airfield, and Ames Research Center. We’d like to recommend that Google build a direct tunnel to make the ongoing employee transfer easier.
AOL’s Bebo seems to be growing a little stronger in terms of personnel; although it’s not stealing directly from a certain search giant, the social network’s newest hire acted as an exec at Dailymotion, and some time before that, Google.
The former Prime Minister of Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski says that Polish citizens should not be given the option of voting online."I am not an enthusiast of a young person sitting in front of a computer, watching video clips and pornography while sipping a bottle of beer and voting when he feels like it," Kaczynski said in an interview posted on the Web site of his conservative Law and Justice Party.
Bonnie Brown worked as a masseuse with Google Inc right from the early days, and struck gold when Google went public in 2004.
In the past seven or so years, Chamath Palihapitiya worked at AOL and co-founded MyMusicChannel. He then moved on to Mayfield Fund, which has “over $2.7 billion under management.” Now Palihapitiya’s found another job; he will serve as Facebook’s vice president of product marketing and operations.
Lobbyists work on behalf of all sorts of nasty causes – some people might not approve of oil companies and tobacco corporations, for example. But lobbyists also work on behalf of charitable organizations and the like. And now one more lobbyist works for Google.
