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Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year’s TechCrunch50. But there must be a winner, and that winner is…YAMMER
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The following 52 companies have been selected from a pool of over 1,000 applicants. They will present their business plans at the TechCrunch50 conference. Information about them will become available as their particular presentation sessions begin.

Adgregate Markets
AdRocket
Akoha
Alfabetic
Atmosphir
Birdpost
BlahGirls
Bojam
Burt
Causecast
Closet Couture
Connective Logic
DemoPit Company
Devunity
DotSpots
DropBox
Emerginvest
ExchangeP
FairSoftware
FitBit
Footnote
Fotonauts
GazoPa
GoodGuide
Goodrec
GoPlanit

Grockit
Hangout Industries
iCharts
Imindi
LiveHit
Me-trics
MIXTT
Mobclix
Mytopia
OtherInBox
Personalria
PlaYce
Popego
Postbox
Quant the News
Rinen
Shattered Reality Interactive
Shryk
Swype
Tingz
Tonchidot
TrueCar
Tweegee
VideoSurf
Yammer
Ångströ

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TechCrunch Conference began with a simple goal: find the best start-ups and launch them in front of our industry’s most influential VCs, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs and press. They’ll launch 50 companies over three days, September 8-10. We have a great new venue, the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. Below is a complete schedule of [...]

Update on the TechCrunch Tablet: A humble (and messy) beginning. Prototype A has been built. It’s in a temporary aluminum case that a local sheet metal shop put together for us that’s at least twice as thick as it needs to be, but the hardware has been defined and is nearing lockdown. We booted the [...]

TechCrunch50 is all about the startups. But 50 startups (its actually 52) launching over three days is a lot to digest.
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Here are some of the jobs listed on CrunchBoard over the last week:

Fulltime Senior AJAX/PHP Web Developer
DriverSide - San Francisco, CA
QA Engineer
Gx5 - Anywhere
Software Support Specialist
K&L Wine Merchants - Redwood City, CA
GoodBarry .NET Web Development Ninja
GoodBarry - San Francisco, CA
Head of Web Design & Front-End Development
Global Campus - London, UK
Quality Assurance Cowboy
Janus Health - San [...]

Techcrunch.com is reporting just now that The Attorney General of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, is about to make an announcement at noon ET that he and the attorneys generals from 48 other states have negotiated a deal with Facebook to implement new safety and privacy rules, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. Facebook will [...]

One of my favorite blogs Techcrunch.com had this to say about Yahoo Buzz Stats…….
Yahoo Buzz, a Digg-like service that launched on February 25, is now nearly three weeks old. We asked Yahoo to share some of the data from those first two weeks.
The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories are linked from [...]