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• Pixar Developing Cars 2 , Source Says

  Published: July 14, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Animation, Disney, Family Films, Remakes Sequels, Rumormonger

  With Toy Story 3 coming to theaters in 2010, I keep wondering why Pixar didn't plan sequels to any of its other hits. I guess we kinda got a follow-up to Monsters, Inc., but I'd love to see another whole feature with Sulley and Mike. I'd also like to see a full-length return of The Incredibles. If I had to choose, though, I'd much rather see new,

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• Rumormonger: Who's not coming to Demo? The startup that got kicked out

  Published: September 24, 2007, 12:57 am

  Tags: Chris Shipley, Demo, Jason Calacanis, Michael Arrington, Rumormonger, Techcrunch40

  We hear that Chris Shipley and the rest of the Demo conference team are coming down hard on companies who violate their exclusive contract. A tipster "has it on on good authority" that one presenting company has been "yanked off the stage" at tomorrow's fall Demo conference in San Diego, because it demo'd its wares at Michael Arrington and Jason

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• Comments: Brad Fitzpatrick coming unplugged at Google?

  Published: September 24, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Brad Fitzpatrick, Comments, Google, Livejournal, Rumormonger, Wi Fi

  From the comments, a fresh rumor about Brad Fitzpatrick, the LiveJournal founder widely believed to be working on social networks at Google. The commenter, who claims to work at Google, says Fitzpatrick is actually working on free, ad-supported Wi-Fi. Curious, since Google's Wi-Fi projects have faced trouble recently. A deal with San Francisco for

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• Rumormonger: RockYou wanted to pay $2M to draw on your wall

  Published: September 25, 2007, 6:31 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Rockyou, Rumormonger, Sequoia Capital

  Facebook's platform has captured the hearts of Valley developers and the wallets of Sand Hill moneymen, but still has yet to prove it can make a buck. The question, five months after the Facebook frenzy began, is how much is a Facebook application worth? For an answer, let's turn to widget powerhouse RockYou, the startup known to users for its

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• Rumormonger: AOL layoffs begin today

  Published: September 25, 2007, 7:55 pm

  Tags: Aol, Layoffs, Rumormonger, Top

  There's not much surprise left, given the drumbeat of rumors that AOL would be pursuing mass layoffs later this year. But we now hear that layoffs have started at the Internet giant, even earlier than expected, with a number of middle managers getting the chop Tuesday afternoon. Anyone have more details on who's out, and which parts of the company

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• Rumormonger: Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg on his way out ... of Seattle?

  Published: September 28, 2007, 5:58 pm

  Tags: Deathwatch, Jason Goldberg, Jobster, Rumormonger, Top

  Word around Seattle is that Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg is headed out of the troubled job-search website -- for parts east. Sources say that Goldberg's husband, Thomas, has been telling friends of their upcoming move to New York City and, on his last day at Seattle advertising firm Wong Doody, sent out a company-wide goodbye email indicating that

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• Rumormonger: GOOG-411 a victim of Googler vanity

  Published: October 2, 2007, 8:27 am

  Tags: Google, Rumormonger

  An anonymized correspondent writes, "The reason the GOOG-411 voices irritate you is that instead of spending a few bucks on phone voice actors, the staff recorded all the 'GOOG-411!' samples themselves. They brought in their kids. An utter act of vanity. Yay us!" My reporter-sense says this is a guess rather than a sourced scoop. But it would

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• Rumormonger: Six Apart considered a LiveJournal and Vox spinoff

  Published: October 2, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Social, Ben Trott, Chris Alden, Facebook, Livejournal, Mena Trott, Networks, Rumormonger, Six Apart, Top, Vox

  We just heard an outlandish rumor: That San Francisco-based blogging company Six Apart, whose software powers many of the world's most popular blogs, considered splitting in two earlier this year, under former CEO Barak Berkowitz. But the company recently upgraded its CEO, replacing Berkowitz with executive Chris Alden, and a spinoff or sale is no

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• Rumormonger: Big shakeup at Microsoft?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 7:11 pm

  Tags: Adobe, Amir Majidimehr, Flash, Microsoft, Online Video, Reorg, Rumormonger, Top, Youtube

  According to the BusinessofVideo.com blog, Microsoft is shaking up its audio- and video-software business:Today, Microsoft made some major company changes in multiple divisions of their business. Some long time execs including Amir Majidimehr and others are affected and multiple divisions have been reorged. Lots of changes that will affect

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• Rumormonger: AOL fires all of its contractors?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:09 pm

  Tags: Aol, Layoffs, Rumormonger

  A reliable tipster tells us that AOL just terminated all of the contractors in its Dulles, Va. headquarters -- a cheaper cost-saving move, naturally, than actually firing employees, though perhaps a precursor to actual staff layoffs. Anyone know how many people were affected? Let us know.

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• Rumormonger: Watch out MySpace: Facebook to launch a platform for musicians

  Published: October 6, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Apple, Facebook, Idolator, Ilike, Itunes, Myspace, Rumormonger, Social Networks, Top

  On Friday we wrote about Facebook launching a possible iTunes competitor. We've now found a new, more compelling rumor from Rafat Ali of PaidContent. Instead of a music store, Facebook is said to be launching an artist platform to compete with MySpace's musician-friendly profile pages -- a feature that has been a huge part of the social network's

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• Rumormonger: Which AOL executive is quitting?

  Published: October 10, 2007, 7:26 pm

  Tags: Aol, Bill Wilson, Kevin Conroy, Layoffs, Rumormonger, Ted Cahall, Top

  AOL's Dulles headquarters is wracked by rumors. We hear that one reason the company has writhed in the agony of impending layoffs is that its overworked human-resources department has been stretched to the limit by the task of preparing so many severance packages -- otherwise, CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant would have made the cuts sooner.

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• Jason Goldberg: "Help wanted" sign at Jobster headquarters

  Published: October 10, 2007, 2:08 pm

  Tags: Jason Goldberg, Jobster, Rumormonger, Thomas Goldberg, Wong Doody

  Are you an unemployed tech CEO? Jobster may be able to help you find a gig. Despite strenuous denials from Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg, rumors continue to swirl that the obstreperous entrepreneur is on his way out of the troubled online job-search startup. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Goldberg himself is leading a search for his

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• Rumormonger: Snocap lays off 60 percent of its employees?

  Published: October 11, 2007, 6:17 pm

  Tags: Digital Music, Jordan Mendelson, Layoffs, Rumormonger, Shawn Fanning, Snocap

  A tipster reports that Snocap, the once-hot digital music startup from Napster founder Shawn Fanning and Silicon Valley bad boy Jordan Mendelson, has laid off 60 percent of its staff, and the company is up for sale. If true, it's not surprising, giving industry trends. Snocap was something of a second coming for Fanning; rather than fight the

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• Rumormonger: Steve Ballmer and Mark Zuckerberg set hotel rendezvous

  Published: October 12, 2007, 7:53 pm

  Tags: Exclusive, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Nerdspotting, Rumormonger, Social Networks, Steve Ballmer, Top

  MENLO PARK, CA. -- It's hardly a secret that Microsoft and Facebook are negotiating over the purchase of a high-valued stake in the hot social network. But why would Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer be so foolish as to pick the Stanford Park Hotel as their meeting place for a final round of negotiations? The hotel,

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