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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
In his video conference showing off the CrunchPad JooJoo, Chandrasekar "Chandra" Rathakrishnan, Fusion's founder and CEO took time to refute Michael Arrington's claims to the web tablet. On more than one occasion he said, "there is no contract between Fusion and TechCrunch," adding "Fusion owns all the intellectual property rights and product rights...TechCrunch didn't contribute...
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DVICE (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
For a while now we've been keeping an eye on the CrunchPad — a tablet geared towards browsing the Internet while sitting on the sofa — though last month it looked like it was all over for the niche-y computer...
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The Next Web (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Last week, we brought you news of the Crunchpad’s unexpected collapse . We won’t regurgitate all the details here, but suffice to say Michael Arrington placed the blame on his partner in the project Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan and FG’s shareholders. Today, the computer formerly known as the Crunchpad, has been renamed JooJoo. In a video conference, [...]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The drama over Michael Arrington's dream tablet the CrunchPad took another turn today when Arrington's erstwhile manufacturing partner, Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan unveiled the...
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http://feeds.feedburner.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch : LaLa Was Bought By Apple For $17 Million, Not $80 Million — Sometimes you have to apply the smell test to what your sources are telling you, and the rumors we're hearing about Apple's purchase of music service LaLa are definitely smelling a little off. $80 million for LaLa? That isn't what we're hearing.
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Efinditnow (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
CrunchPad, the tablet idea pioneered by Web 2.0 blogger Michael Arrington, was declared dead last week. But it’s back with a new name, JooJoo, new features and a new price. By Priya Ganapati
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TechSheep (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: LaLa Was Bought By Apple For $17 Million, Not $80 Million — Sometimes you have to apply the smell test to what your sources are telling you, and the rumors we’re hearing about Apple’s purchase of music service LaLa are definitely smelling a little off. $80 million for LaLa? That isn’t [...]
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Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The morality tale surrounding the demise of the CrunchPad has gotten some clarity while it's become even more murky. The CrunchPad, as such, isn’t quite dead. Rather, it’s been reincarnated as the “JooJoo” , and Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan says it will be ready to launch Friday, December 11 . The quick-and-dirty of the tale is this: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch...
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The Technology Chronicles (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The drama over Michael Arrington's dream tablet the CrunchPad took another turn today when Arrington's erstwhile manufacturing partner, Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan unveiled the...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just when you thought the CrunchPad was dead (or that Michael Arrington might actually shut up for five minutes) along comes news of its revival, only this time it's got a new name and a new daddy. In an effort to "tell their side of the story," erstwhile CrunchPad manufacturers Fusion Magic held a press event yesterday to announce that, yes, the "dead simple Web tablet" is still...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Rumors , Apple Did Apple's purchase of music streaming service Lala cost the company $80 million , or 17 million? Probably the latter, at least according to Techcrunch . $80 million seemed like an awfully large price tag for a service that's only a couple years old. Michael Arrington at TC claims to have sources who say the purchase price was $17 million instead of the previously reported...
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[Geeks are Sexy] (Free subscription) | yesterday
What do you get when you cross a leading blogger, a technology idea and a copyright dispute? Unfortunately the answer is a product so overpriced as to be pointless. Last year, Michael Arrington (pictured) of TechCrunch (a major blog which has its content republished to the Washington Post) began work on an idea he had for [...] Related posts: Five Blogs Green Techies Should be Reading iPod Shuffle:...
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A little about .... (Free subscription) | yesterday
CrunchPad, by and large, was a hardware prototyping initiative created at the behest of Michael Arrington, Louis Monier, and Singapore based design studio Fusion Garage that aimed to develop a low-cost tablet PC for Web surfing.
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http://feeds.feedburner.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Arrington's original vision for his CrunchPad remains compelling. It's just that the device, renamed the JooJoo and introduced by Fusion Garage, is way too expensive. That doesn't make the idea bad, just the product a failure. Some will say those of two sides of the same coin. Yet, by ratcheting back its ambition--not to mention screen size and price--the JooJoo could yet become something...
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MAC News Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
The true price paid for Apple's purchase of Lala continues to be in dispute, a new report suggests. Sources reached by AllThingsDigital recently put the value at $80 million, conflicting with early indications that Lala was acquired at a "fire-sale" cost. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, however, cites "sources with indirect knowledge of the deal" as claiming a value of just $17...