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Amazon Has Acquired Yap, the Closest Thing to a Siri Clone It Can Find

in Commerce on November 9, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT

There are a lot of similarities between Amazon and Apple. The secrecy, the dedication to the consumer, the focus on devices and digital media, and now this: Siri.
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Short People Got No Reason to Vlog?

in News on September 24, 2007 at 12:05 am PT

Leave it to the freakishly tall Megan McCarthy of Valleywag to impugn our stature at BoomTown. In her post late last week that I missed (I was traveling and therefore not aware of her cruel, cruel taunts), she pointed with dread to a recent promise I made to try out a new wearable camera I [...]

BoomTown Went to the TechCrunch40 Conference and All You Get Is This Lousy Video

in News on September 18, 2007 at 1:51 am PT

While we subjected our stalwart John Paczkowski of Digital Daily to the onerous and potentially mind-numbing task of live-blogging Jason Calacanis’s and Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch40 conference, BoomTown broke some news (on the Yahoo-Zimbra $350 million deal), wandered around and basically schmoozed. In addition, cupcakes were had. (The day also included a pricey payback lunch for [...]