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There aren’t many places that celebrate Halloween like our local Chapel Hill, so in honor of the holiday we thought we’d put together a compilation of the best, most notable Halloween logos sprucing up our favorite websites. If you’ve found one of your own, feel free to submit it to us at tips@techtownnc.com.

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Multiple sources are not reporting on the additional money raised by Facebook’s recent round of financing. The rumor-cum-story is that two New York Hedge Funds have also pitched in for the same 1.6 percent share that Microsoft acquired. That brings the total financing up to about 750 million, a number that had been floated around [...]

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Microsoft pulled the trigger on a smaller than rumored investment in Facebook today to the tune of $240 million. What will 240 million buy in this bubble-ish world? A measly 1.6 percent, that’s what! That puts the valuation of Facebook at $15 billion, which is quite a vote of confidence. If it wasn’t already past [...]

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One of the few shows that I will actually tolerate ads for is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. However, Viacom and their $1 billion lawsuit against Google and YouTube made it difficult to find the best and freshest clips from the show. Up to now the best place to watch these shows online has [...]

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For anyone who read my post last week about life-casting lotto website See Me Win, there is good news. The site, which had been down for some redesigning, will be broadcasting live starting at 10PM tonight. I got a message from one of the site’s founders, Duke grad Breck Yunits, saying that they’ve got a [...]

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