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In Googolopoly, buying Yahoo only costs Google 350 shares
Nicholas Carlson · 06/16/08 12:20PMOnline file storage and collaboration firm Box.net has created the perfect game for all those Googlebrats to play intheir new 18,500-sq. ft. luxury childcare center: not Monopoly, but Googolopoly. On the board, shown below, it's Microsoft instead of Boardwalk, Yahoo instead of Park Place — going for just 350 shares each. So far, real-life Google has already locked up the purples (YouTube, SketchUp and Keyhole); the light blues (Writely, JotSpot and BlogSpot); and the oranges (DoubleClick, GrandCentral and Urchin). Can you be as acquisitive as Larry and Sergey?
The Omnidrive story you won't read on TechCrunch
Jackson West · 05/06/08 12:40PMUntil a recent article from ReadWriteWeb declaring online file-storage and sharing service Omnidrive dead, founder and CEO Nik Cubrilovic was missing in action. The support forums for customers went unattended even as the site went down. An investor, Clay Cook, who sunk six figures into the company couldn't get a reply to his email. Also nowhere to be found? Any reporting from TechCrunch.