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Valleywag mangles Marc Andreessen, and we think he likes it [Quotable]

PALO ALTO — Thursday night in a Crowne Plaza hotel, with an Elks Club banquet roaring next door, Netscape cofounder, Ning king, and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen sat down with Portfolio writer Kevin Maney for a Churchill Club interview. This wasn't exactly what Andreessen had planne...

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Bill and Melinda Gates drop by VC party [Nerdspotting]

The hottest ticket Thursday night? August Capital's annual party at its Sand Hill Road offices. The surprise guests: Bill and Melinda Gates. August isn't the biggest name on Sand Hill Road — so how did it draw the Gateses? Simple: August's Dave Marquardt was the sole VC to invest in Microso...

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Michael Moore's latest agitprop will be free at Blip.tv [Online Video]

Slacker Nation, which focuses on chubby doc jock Michael Moore's trip around the country to drum up support among the youngs for "voting," will be distributed online for free. Online video site Blip.tv will be hosting the download in a nice little marketing coup (the fact that Blip.tv c...

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Dell to sell factories worldwide [Hardware]

Insiders have blabbed to the Wall Street Journal that Dell "has approached contract computer manufacturers with offers to sell ... its computer factories." Founder Michael Dell is a Texan, not a Valley guy. But he did build a $1,000 investment into the world's biggest PC maker, starting...

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Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates star in nonsensical new ad campaign [Microsoft]

Long-time Macintosh enthusiast Jerry Seinfeld kicks off the new Microsoft campaign by spotting company cofounder Bill Gates at a fictional discount shoe store. The 90-second spot makes a lot less sense from there. Can't say for certain if this is the spot that Michel Gondry directed, but it certa...

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HiVision to ship $98 MiniNote laptop in October [One Laptop Per Child]

In the race to develop the first mass-producible laptop that costs less than $100 has apparently been won by Chinese company HiVision, which currently offers an adorable, pink, 7" MiniNote for $120 but plans to introduce a model in October that will retail for only $98. Like the Lemote lapto...

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