In this podcast, Golub talks with Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha about picking apricots in Silicon Valley, learnings from the challenging Plaxo journey, his excitement around leading Docker, the cur
Minh Nguyen, who co-founded the contact management and social networking startup Plaxo (along with<a target="_blank" href="https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sean-parker"> Sean Parker</a>), has been ch
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/download2.png" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.plaxo.com/">Plaxo</a> has had its fair share of ups and downs. Back in 2006, the company
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<em><strong>Editor's note</strong>: This is the second of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist <a hr
<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/bengolub.png" alt="" />Back in March, long-time <a href="http://www.plaxo.com">Plaxo</a> President and CEO <a href="http://www.c
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As we become tethered to a growing number of social media sites, the contact information of our social network inevitably b
<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/bengolub.png" alt="" /><a href="http://www.plaxo.com">Plaxo</a> President and CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ben-
<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0000/3880/3880v1-max-250x250.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" />Google may have hired Plaxo's Chief Technology Officer <a href="http://
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/JSmarr-200x200.jpg" width="200" height="200" />Back in June, Google <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/a-social-force-departs-google/"
<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/sean-parker"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/16432v1-max-250x250-171x200.png" width="171" height="200" />Sean Parker</a> is no stran
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<a href="http://www.glynx.com">Glynx</a>, not to be confused with the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/02/11/ginx-re
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Today, <a href="http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/01/bringing-openid-and-oauth-together.html">Google<
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You may not know it, but you probably have an <a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a>. If you have a <a href="https://
Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at F
A subset of the Gillmor Gang met via telephone this afternoon to debate the $150 – $170 million Comcast acquisition of Plaxo. Listen to Steve Gillmor, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis
The rumors were accurate: Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list Plaxo today. Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the purchase price is between $150 and $170 million.
Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which wi
This is my last post at TechCrunch as a full time writer (I may yet do the occasional guest post). It’s exactly 12 months to the day since I started writing here and the date seemed like a good
Okay, making Plaxo look lame isn’t that hard. But as Plaxo has been groping around the past year trying to turn itself into a social network to attract a buyer (cough, Comcast), a little startup
San Diego based FanBox from mobile solutions company SMS.ac offers a variety of services. From its front page it offers a reasonable web desktop package, complete with wordprocessing, IM and online st
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