Amazon mount charm offensive on major record labels

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Attention Gold-Digging Women of Silicon Valley: I’m On To You

So, there I was, sitting at TCHQ, discussing the recent Vanity Fair article about Jack Dorsey — and the ridiculous bluebird-on-the-shoulder picture that accompanied it.

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Help Me Interview Jack Dorsey Tonight

Jack Dorsey is in demand these days. The inventor of Twitter is now back as head of product, while still acting as CEO of his other startup, Square. Tonight, Dorsey and I will guest lecture together at Rachel Sterne’s Columbia Business School course on Social Media And Entrepreneurship. Sterne is also New York City’s chief digital officer, so it should be a social media extravaganza. We’ll be streaming the talk right here on TechCrunch starting around 6PM ET tonight.

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Android Market’s In-App Billing Now Live

One of the biggest gripes Android developers have about the ecosystem has been Android Market it was slow to add support for paid apps internationally, and it’s taken ages for it to support in-app payments. Today, it’s finally fixing the latter issue: Android Market now supports in-app billing.

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Report: News Corp. in Talks With Vevo on Myspace

Los Angeles - News Corp. (NYSE:NWS) has held discussions to sell its struggling
Myspace unit to music video portal joint venture Vevo, Reuters reported, citing
a person with knowledge of the talks. The likelihood of a deal is reportedly
"slim," but terms would see News Corp. exchange Myspace for a stake
in Vevo, a joint venture between Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Abu
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Nintendo responds to 3DS headache complaints

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StockTwits Continues To Expand, Steals VP David Putnam From Yahoo Finance

StockTwits, a realtime platform for stock traders to share information, has been undergoing a rapid growth spurt of late. According to Quantcast, 465,000 people are now visiting the site per month, which means the company has more than doubled its visitors since early December, when less than 200,000 were checking in to share and trade. This seems largely due to the service’s continuing evolution beyond its TweetDeck roots and creation of its own true investor ecosystem chalk full of video, news and charts — all enabled by an AIR app.

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Warner Bros. Adds 5 Films to Facebook Streaming Rentals

Burbank, Calif. - Following a trial with its film "The
Dark Knight," Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) Warner Bros. is making five additional movies
available for streaming rental on Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Tutorial: Beginner’s guide to Windows 7

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GroupMe Brings Brands Into The Conversation

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