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Can PE shop JC Flowers escape becoming a one-hit wonder?
Carl Icahn has more than one interest in the Dynegy dispute.
Expect Facebook's "Gmail Killer" to enter your life on Monday.
Sequoia Capital lands Tumblr, in the second aggressive West Coast bid for an East Coast startup this week. No wonder Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson is feeling troubled.
Wait, a startup scores $5 million to deliver pet food to your door. Now I'm feeling troubled, too.
Clearly, Y Combinator means business.
Apparently too impatient to wait until December, Time compiles its "Top 50 Best Inventions of 2010."
It began with real estate, but now, the economy is impacting swinging parties and clubs in New York, too. (Sad.)
Only two people know the true story of ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd, but one thing is certain, reports Adam Lashinksy: The deeper you dig, the weirder it gets.
Neil Patel on when success begins to lead to failure.
Caterina Fake leaves Hunch.
Nice move, Google; what took you so long?
Blackberry is losing its strangehold on corporate communications, and investors are panicking.
AIG's CEO to industry observers: Um, don't write my obit just yet, please.
Pot calling kettle black? Rupert Murdoch thinks President Obama is "arrogant."
Here's all you need to know about the MGM bankruptcy.
Big banks just don't pay what they used to, sniff.
Today, stocks soared to their highest levels since Lehman went kablooey.
Are you considering shooting an email to a startup that's of interest? Don't do these things in that email.
Think location-based services are a passing fad? According to PEW, already 4 percent of Americans are using them.
A look at VCs' love-hate relationship with the GOP.
Giant oops. Microsoft's new motion-sensing camera, Kinect, has trouble with dark-skinned users. Worse, it's not the first.
Will Netflix destroy the Internet? Farhad Manjoo thinks it's a possibility.
Size matters for investment managers.
He wanted $8 billion; instead, British financier Guy Hands was handed bupkis earlier today in his lawsuit against Citigroup.
Find GM's roadshow here.
Bummer. No new Bond film until November 2012.
Chronicling when most couples tend to split up, using Facebook updates.
Bye, bye, MySpace.
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on their unlikely mentor, Mike Ovitz.
Jason Calacanis threatens to sue TechCrunch for some of that AOL money.
Google is forgiven for its Street View privacy snafu by the U.K. which instead issues Google a surprisingly lame warning.
Meanwhile, for the first time, the search giant is carrying ads from someone else’s ad network — Twitter’s.
Peter Orszag on how to save Social Security.
Anyone want to buy 33.9 percent of BlackRock? It's just around $11 billion.
Steve Black leaves the house of Jamie Dimon.
Short memories finance PE payouts.
Pandemonium at today's San Francisco Giant's parade. (Go team! And thanks for the shot, Charles Hudson.)
The Swiss see an end to a major bear debate.
Have you exercised your franchise today? if you haven't, get out there and vote.
Do positive people live longer?
A grim look at life for the folks who build our iPhones.
F.B.I. agents in Boston just arrested a French doctor, accusing him of tipping off a hedge fund manager about setbacks in a clinical drug trial.
The case against Bambi. (Yes, this story involves the phrase "big bucks.")
Barton Biggs falls for the emerging market bubble.
Good news, confused advertisers. According to a new study, people are looking at your online ads, and they don't hate them.
YouTube's Chad Hurley didn't just quit to do another Web startup. Interestingly -- refreshingly? -- he's now developing a menswear label for affluent shoppers. Man purses, anyone?
Google's $750 million acquisition of AdMob received government approval just five months ago, yet AdMob's aggravated CEO has already bolted.
Why free trade and the Tea Party just can't get along.
AdAge says to expect advertising in our individual Twitter streams, starting today.
Dave McClure on why it's still entirely possible to take down Facebook.
Heidi Moore on why in nearly every race tomorrow, Wall Street loses.
Kara Swisher on why the women of tech -- the ones running for California office anyway -- don't look to fare very well tomorrow.
Auction giant eBay is getting a much-needed makeover.
2010 is shaping up to be the most robust year energy M&A since 2007.
Potash, time to look at how the Cadbury situation worked out.
TheDeal spotlights Cleveland as a hub of thriving dealmaking.
Tweet from the top of Mount Everest. Seriously. They've installed a 3G mobile network at its base.
What attack ads would have been like if Thomas Jefferson had Final Cut Pro.
Fred Wilson on the myth of boom or bust returns.
Larry Sonsini on the globalization of Silicon Valley (video).
Warren Buffett's newest hire didn't furnish the media with a picture of himself, so one outlet has resorted to using his high school yearbook picture.
Eric Schmidt has worked out okay, but Larry Page and Sergey Brin had hoped Steve Jobs would be Google's first CEO.
Halloween fever hits Wall Street.
Does crowdsourcing work for investing?
Will it work in redesigning the FCC's Website? It's asking for your help.
One hundred movie spoilers in five minutes, after the jump...
Google may be buying one of the biggest buildings in Manhattan.
First Jonathan Miller, now Ross Levinsohn. So much for ComVentures, er Velocity Interactive Group -- I mean Fuse.
The sFund was the just the tip of the iceberg, reports Dan Primack; Kleiner Perkins is raising $1.4 billion.
Silicon Valley is showing the first year-over-year employment gains since 2008.
Fifty-seven things that Fabulis founder Jason Goldberg has learned by starting three companies.
AIG unveils a succession plan, two days after disclosing that CEO Robert Benmosche has cancer.
Peter Henning on the hurdles to suing outside advisers for fraud.
Dogs looking depressed in their Halloween costumes.
Want to know the riskiest domains on the Web? McAfee tells all in its fourth annual Mal Web report.
Is writing a lengthy blog post really the best way to quit your job?
As Google fights for the right to acquire ITA Software, some ITA investors are being forced not to take sides.
Glaxo has agreed to a $750 million fine to settle complaints that for years, it knowingly sold contaminated products, including baby ointments.
Cardinal Health's lose-lose proposition in batting down LBO rumors.
Telecom equipment maker CommScope confirms that Carlyle has approached it with a take-private offer.
Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The new MacBook Air is that much more awesome, says TechCrunch's MG Siegler.
A new device emerges to detect stress through the skin's electrical impulses - and potentially gauge what affects an autistic person.
Want to know which U.S. brands are spending the most on advertising? Find out here.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh says bad hires have cost his company "well over $100 million."
Digg is circling the drain.
Highland Capital Partners is getting sued over its Cash4Gold investment.
Michael Bloomberg is supporting a two-term limit for, cough, New York City mayors.
According to a new survey, finance professionals are feeling rosier about their jobs, even while feeling gloomier about the economy.
A look at why people are defecting from some fast-growng startups.
Meet the leading contender to manage Warren Buffett's gazillions.