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 | Greg Kumparak It's becoming almost formulaic: An iconic game designer, backed by a legion of dedicated fans, turns to Kickstarter to allow them to break out on their own.... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington When a Kickstarter project goes well enough to inspire a sequel a few years down the road, it's generally a positive sign. In the case of Juicies, a startup... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden The latest smartphone sales figures are out today from Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, and in case you needed one more metric to underscore the topline trend that's... read more | | | |  | Catherine Shu Yahoo China, which is operated by Chinese e-commerce and Internet services behemoth Alibaba Group, has closed its Web portal. The site now displays a good-bye... read more | |  | Alex Williams Internet companies represent the world's fastest-growing markets and they cover the global economy. Every market imaginable is affected by Internet companies.... read more | |  | Mike Butcher TechCrunch Europe was launched in September 2007, the same week Seedcamp - the European tech startup accelerator - also launched. So we've been on something of... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington The good ship Galaxy Gear smartwatch is springing multiple leaks ahead of its official reveal this Wednesday, Sept. 4, and there are even leaks about previous... read more | |  | Catherine Shu Rakuten has confirmed that it will acquire Viki, a global video streaming platform that crowdsources translated subtitles. The Japanese e-commerce giant, which... read more | |  | Natasha Lomas Handshake is a personal data marketplace startup aiming to cut out the market research middle man by building a platform where users can sign up to be... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden Twitter is working on ways of getting more juice out of its vast trove of user content -- that new "blue line" for conversation threads, for example, is a way... read more | | |
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