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It has been about 3 months since Revision3 launched the new version of their site and now they have been acquired. Techcrunch reports that in Episode 143 of Diggnation: Hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht announce the sale of Revision3 to Fox News at about the 2:05 mark. Rose says “Well, ah, we basically have [...]

Minic over at 901am has reported that Spiral Frog is now the third largest legal music download site. Spiral Frog reports that they have 850,000 registered users, thus putting them in third largest behind iTunes and Rhapsody. The company also reports that their traffic is also increasing at a constant rate, already surpassing two million [...]

Im not too sure if i should really write about Crenk’s competitors, because giving them some extra publicity for free is never a good idea. However, i really wanted to run through some of my favourite technology sites and let you know which ones are actually worth reading and which ones arent.
Currently, here at Crenk [...]

In the last 6 to 12 months i have heard a lot of talk about the website, TheFunded.  I have seen the site all over the blogosphere and on the BBC, but i really dont understand why.
The site lets entrepreneurs rate and comment about venture capitalists, has drawn a lot of attention from folks eager [...]

TradeVibes is now in a public beta. TradeVibes is a wiki type database about everything technology based, companies, CEOs, funding, acquisitions, news and more. They are in direct competition with Crunchbase, but I can see TradeVibes dominating this market for a long time to come.
As i have been an alpha user, i have been wondering [...]

As we are coming to the end of March I would like to thank all of our partners and sponsors and recap on whats been happening on Crenk and around the blogosphere.
Sponsors and Partners:
RouteNote: Music licensing and distribution
Forbes.com: Crenk is a new member of their soon to launch Business and Finance blog network
Xfep: eXtra For [...]

It has been reported that Chinese social network QQ made $523 million in revenues last year, which actually is almost four times more than Facebook. Facebook only turned over a revenue of $150 million, and while they reported a $50 million loss in 2007, QQ reported a profit of $224 million.
However, the most surprising stat [...]

Adobe AIR is having quite a buzz at the moment around the web. They are trying to bring more of the web directly on to your desktop, and they seem to be having quite a successful time achieving this. AIR actually stands for “Adobe Integrated Runtime”, and this article looks at some of the best [...]

dnScoop asks the question, how much is your site worth? The site aims to value domains by finding different variables and then estimate the actual worth. Some of the factors used include, incoming links, age of the domain, pagerank, traffic, popularity and more. Sites like dnScoop arent totally accurate, but they tend to be quite [...]

Here on Crenk we are starting a new section call “You’ve Been Crenked!” This section covers reviews of startup companies and also some more established ones. If you know a site that you think we should review or if you want us to review your company, please contact us or leave a comment below.
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Crenk Team