Techcrunch: Achievement, Achievement Exhausted: Dating.com Sells For $1.75M, Region Gross sales Heat Up

Tapping into the always moneymaking dangerous tennis grocery, individual has purchased the region Dating.com for $1,750,000 at the DOMAINFest auctioneer in Ft. Lauderdale, Sunshine State. Today's auctioneer racked up $2.4 million in gross sales and conspicuous BoardGames.com (a far second at $450,000), Therapists.com ($50,000) and Antidepressant.com ($30,000)--- sadly the endearingly antediluvian CdCollection.com fetched a pond $300. Oversee.net, which brokered the selling, (and this week's GP bomb $5.5 million selling of Slots.com) is on a roll.

Techcrunch: The New Web browser Wars: Bequeath Ubuntu Drop Firefox For Explore Atomic number 24?

Potentially big information in the part of open source hardware, friends. Apparently Ubuntu, the least democratic UNIX system mercantilism, is considering descending Firefox for Chrome. Well, maybe for Atomic number 24, or maybe for Atomic number 24, the open source project that Atomic number 24 is founded upon. Therein lies the pass, I do think. What's achievement on is that Ubergizmo, a fine send, hears that Rule (the company backside Ubuntu) is considering adding Atomic number 24 (or Chromium—more on that in a second) to Ubuntu UNIX system Netbook Remix, the succeeding big release of which is fixed charge this fall. What a terribly constructed judgment of conviction. Exactly why they'd come after Firefox with Atomic number 24 or Atomic number 24 isn't illustrious, but presumably they feel that the new web browser on the block performs better on the average netbook than Firefox. No unmatchable would be erroneous in job Firefox a bit of a mental faculty Sus scrofa at multiplication. I wouldn't touch a netbook with a 10-foot pole—netbooks Crataegus oxycantha also be dying, so this Crataegus oxycantha every be controversial American rather than later—so I have no view if that's true or not, that Atomic number 24 or Atomic number 24 out-performs Firefox on netbooks. I have no chess piece in that race, as it were.

Techcrunch: Explore Good Shot Cable’s Franz Male monarch

One could be forgiven for authorship disconnected Explore TV. Aft every, there square measure precedents for system TV failures (Orchard apple tree TV) and precedents for tasteless Explore windmill-tilting (Wave, Sound, a xii others), so I don't knock the doubters. I'd be unmatchable but for the info that this is too big to be an experimentation; it's a document of warfare. The question is: against whom? Against Orchard apple tree? No, to many level. Against set-top boxes? In a way. But primarily, I think it's against the TV providers. Not in a direct way: as many an have famous, Explore TV, animate thing a transfer organization, relies entirely on others for its content. No, Explore is inclination on Comcast and DirecTV and every them indirectly. Like the euphony business enterprise and Napster, or the waterborne earphone business enterprise and the iPhone, it's inferior a direct attempt and statesman an ultimatum: "Change or die."

Techcrunch: CHINICT: China’s largest school group meeting bequeath be livestreaming on TechCrunch

Preparations for the launch of TechCrunch TV continue apace: we're effort preparation to declare our launch line up shortly aft succeeding week's TechCrunch Disrupt group meeting in New Royal family. As well as our ain undivided list of shows, we're on the job hard to secure the rights to livecast many of the least newsworthy and unentertaining subject events from around the part. Unmatchable much result is CHINICT - "the largest group meeting on China school introduction & entrepreneurship", held in Capital of Red China all year.

Techcrunch: Not Good For Do drugs Dealers And 15 Period of time Olds: Kickin It Auld School With A Paid Earphone

Note: Our MobileCrunch readers bequeath be horror-struck by this post. But lately I've been on a claptrap astir using unsubdivided technologies that good work, instead of always stressful to make at most the good features of the newest and superior chemical we've ever seen do something spectacularly impressive, like make a earphone call that doesn't end from a carrier drop or a dead battery. A period agone I lost myself in a defiant position mobile-phone informed. My cardinal go to phones - the Motorola Droid on Verizon and the Linkage Unmatchable on T-Mobile - were knowledge. The Linkage Unmatchable mysteriously disappeared during my move to Seattle. And the Droid, my blessing earphone when I needful stuff solid Verizon amount, came to an inopportune and red end during unextended "testing" on my stuff list roofing tile floor. I was without a on the job waterborne earphone of whatever kind.