September 2008
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RescueTime Secures Series A
RescueTime, the self-dubbed “ridiculously easy time management and analytics software” company, today announced on the company blog and on TechCrunch that it closed $900k series A round of funding. Total funding now $920k. The freemium-based time managent company received $20k seed funding from Y Combinator earlier this year.
True Ventures led the round. True Ventures’ portfolio companies...
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Veteran Seattle PI Tech Reporters Quit Newspaper...
Will Seattle be getting it’s own version of TechCrunch? Well regarded local reporters John Cook and Todd Bishop of the PI and Eric Engleman of the Puget Sound Business Journal are banding together and launching what promises to be the region’s go-to destination for biz-tech coverage.
While not yet launched, Bishop and Cook are no longer with the PI. They sent an email to contacts with some...
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SpinSpotter Crowdsources Media Bias Flagging
SpinSpotter launched this week at DEMOfall as a Firefox3 plugin. SpinSpotter’s goal is to tap the wisdom of the crowd to flag media bias in online coverage.
SpinSpotter lets users see, share, and edit spin wherever they go online. To guide users, SpinSpotter lays out what it calls the “Seven Deadly Spins:”
Reporter’s Voice: The reporter employs language (in the form of...
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Sarah Palin Delivers Speech of Her Life at RNC...
Sarah Palin, the Republican VP candidate, Governor of Alaska and recent mayor of a very small town has been in the crosshairs of the national media and the Obama campaign since John McCain chose her to be his running mate just a few days ago. Some would argue that she absolutely should be under intense scrutiny as candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States.
Regardless of your...