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MyHeritage Buys Germany’s OSN, Now 540 Million Profiles Strong TechCrunch (Tuesday) Israeli genealogy site MyHeritage has completed its third acquisition, buying Germany’s OSN. OSN operates seven genealogy sites including Verwandt.de in Germany, Moikrewni.pl in Poland and Dynastree.com in the US. It was launched in 2007 just after LA-b... |
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| Mon, January 18 2010 | |
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Yammer Founder David Sacks Joins Scribd Board Of Directors TechCrunch (Monday) Scribd, a site that lets users and publishers upload and share documents, has a new board member. David Sacks, the founder of Geni and Yammer (and former COO of PayPal), joins the company as a director as of today. Scribd had 8.1 million unique worldwide ... |
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| Wed, October 21 2009 | |
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Yammer Experiencing Extended Outage TechCrunch (Wednesday) Yammer, the Twitter-like short messaging service for business users, has been experiencing a prolonged period of downtime today due to DNS issues. The service first went down over 12 hours ago, was alive for a short period tonight, and then became unrespo... |
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| Wed, July 8 2009 | |
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WSOP Update: Calacanis Out, Sacks Still In (And Bails On TechCrunch Event) TechCrunch (Wednesday) Update on the tech gurus at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. We were tracking four players: Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya, Mahalo CEO Jason Calcanis, Geni/Yammer CEO David Sacks and former Yahoo exec David Goldberg. At least two are now out of ... |
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| Sun, July 5 2009 | |
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Way Too Competitive: Tech Gurus Flock To World Series Of Poker TechCrunch (Sunday) 6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year's World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup entrepreneurs. We... |
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| Tue, May 26 2009 | |
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The Awesome Potential Of Retweet TechCrunch (Tuesday) Editor's note: This is a guest post by David Sacks, the Founder and CEO of Yammer and Geni. Previously he was the COO of PayPal and produced the Academy Award-nominated movie “Thank You For Smoking.” Sacks says he's incorporating the retweet feature ... |
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