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Credits Roll on Would-Be "Thunder Lizard" B-Side Entertainment

Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 23, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Angel investor Mike Maples, Jr., is drawing a lot of attention in the tech blogosphere after his speech last week in which he descriptively labeled certain start-ups as “Thunder Lizards” (think Godzilla). In Maples’ eyes, these are companies that devour competitors and are “wildly disruptive” yet don’t need to raise a ton of capital.

Reports of Yahoogle's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Kara Swisher in News on October 21, 2008 at 2:07 pm PT

Today, The Deal got played, and claimed that Yahoo and Google were likely to abandon their controversial search ad outsourcing deal. Wrote The Deal’s Cecile Kohrs: “A proposed joint venture between rival Internet companies Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. appears headed for the trash bin, just ahead of an expected U.S. Department of Justice challenge to the agreement, lawyers close to the deal said.” Well, maybe it will die at some point. But, in the words of Juba in the last line of the greatest movie ever (“Gladiator,” of course!): Not yet.