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CrunchGear’s Blogging Live From 37,000 Feet!

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:30:36 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
SocialMedian founder Jason Goldberg wrote a Twitter message moments ago letting people know that they are raising a new round of funding, up to $500k, and to contact him if you’re interested. Great way to get investors, right? Exactly not - the whole purpose of the Securities Act of 1933 is to prohibit public offerings […]Source:TechCrunch
Michael Jones sold Userplane, which provides text, voice and video chat software to websites to AOL almost exactly two years ago for around $40 million (the exact price was never disclosed). Now, almost exactly two years later, he’s left AOL full time to pursue his next startup: Tsavo.
The team has set up offices in Santa […]Source:TechCrunch
Hey folks. I’m on American Airlines Flight #3 from JFK to LAX and working from 37,000 feet via Aircell’s Gogo inflight Wi-Fi service. Jump on over to CrunchGear for all the hot, live blogging action and review.
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Trouble in Online Travel: American Airlines Ditches Kayak (Maybe Orbitz Too)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:31:49 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
The TechCrunch team is on site at the Facebook Developer conference, and we’ll be live blogging the news. Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote starts at 1:30 pm PST.
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Source:TechCrunch
After years of ceding the upper hand in online travel to booking sites like Kayak and Orbitz, American Airlines is about to fight back. According to the CEO of a competing travel site, American Airlines is about to pull its airline listings out of Kayak and is considering doing the same with Orbitz. If […]

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American Airlines Starts Testing In-Flight Broadband

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:55:16 +0000

Source:Mashable!
American Airlines announced their intent to begin testing in-flight broadband late last year, along with most of the other major airlines that operate in the US. Today we learn from WebProNews that American Airlines is allowing passengers in on the testing phase, beginning with a flight between New York and Los Angeles.
Testing may […]

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How Do You Build an Airline? Offer Free Wi-Fi.

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:30:12 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
Google Docs and Spreadsheets has hit a bit of a growth curve since June. About 1.4 million people used the Web-based service in October, compared to roughly 600,000 in June, according to Compete. That is a nice jump, but 1.4 million is still a marginal number compared to the desktop productivity apps (on […]Source:Techcrunch
As expected, EchoStar has filed with the SEC to split its business in two, reports GigaOm. The two businesses will be the Dish Network satellite TV service and its set-top box business. That set-top box business includes place-shifting Slingboxes, which Echostar acquired with its $380 million purchase of Sling Media in September. […]Source:Techcrunch
The Web is coming to your airplane seat, real soon. And not just e-mail and IM on one JetBlue plane. Starting in March, I am told, American Airlines will start offering Web access on-board, followed shortly by Virgin America. Both will use an air-to-ground system from Aircell. (Boeing’s failed Connexion broadband […]

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