April 10th, 2012

Triple Threat: Toshiba Unveils Three New Quad-Core Excite Android Tablets

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Spring has come, and like new buds springing forth from the loamy earth, so too are new gadgets constantly being released into the real world. Today’s first helping of new gear comes from Toshiba, who has just fleshed out their Excite line of Android tablets with three new entrants: the Excite 7.7, Excite 10, and the plus-sized Excite 13.

These three new Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tabs share… → Read More

September 29th, 2010

When Google Wanted To Sell To Excite For Under $1 Million — And They Passed

On stage today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, recalled a story from the days when he backed Excite, one of the original Internet portals. Specifically, he spoke briefly about the time they failed to acquire Google.

This story has been circulated for a while, but not many people know about it. Khosla stated it simply: Google was… → Read More