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As the tech world gets itself in a tizzy over Google saying its 5 percent stake in AOL might be impaired — basically it may now be worth less than they thought it was — we thought we’d revisit some of the most notable tech writedowns in history
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First everyone was going to leave Twitter for Jaiku. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for Pownce. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for Plurk. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for FriendFeed. There
’s just one problem. Everyone is still on Twitter. identi.ca/zaibatsu/
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(CNN) — Stephen Colbert may have already earned the title of “Greatest Living American” but now he can add “Webby Person of the Year.”

Stephen Colbert won the Webby Award for “Person of the Year.”

Colbert became the “Greatest Living American” in the eyes of Google thanks to his fans who took to the Internet and [...]

Rearden has done the hard job of integrating different travel services together all through a single browser interface. The system ties in personal preferences with your company’s travel rules, restrictions, & negotiated rates to give you a customized view of what’s available to you. Think of it as Kayak, TripIt, StubHub, Zagats, and webex [...]

Allen & Co. Managing Director Dave Wehner is out pitching a LinkedIn venture capital round at a whopping $1 billion valuation, multiple sources say. This is a story we’ve been working on and isn’t fully baked yet, but VentureBeat started speculating about a potential buyout and so we’re going with what we have now.
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