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Some founders blame the cacophony that is their company's name on available domains. "EVERYTHING sensible is taken!" one says.

The angels who wrote the first check to Google, also were the first backers of startup IO Turbine, which comes out of stealth mode today with details about its fundraising, its founders and its planned product for speeding up I/O bottlenecks on virtualized servers.

Unlike traditional torrent search engines, BTDigg searches through files that are found on BitTorrent’s DHT network.

According to the site’s founders this is a much-needed step to further decentralize BitTorrent.

It's been a while since the four Pirate Bay founders lost their case in a Stockholm district court -- April 2009, to be more precise.

The verdict was of course appealed, but alas, it was not to be.

Christopher Slowe, who has been running the Conde Nast site since its co-founders bailed last year, is now bailing as well--and joining his old boss' new start-up.

Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.

A year after an initial ruling saying that all Dutch users must be blocked from reaching The Pirate Bay, another court has upheld the ruling, saying not only that The Pirate Bay must block Dutch users from accessing the site, but that three of the site's founders have to pay 50,000 euros per day if they fail to do so.

Cyber Cynic: "Poor top management decisions led Linuxcare to lose first its way, and, then, years later, to quietly vanish.

Now, one of its founders, Arthur F. Tyde III, has brought Linuxcare back from the grave and made it ready for the 21st century."

Following a ruling by the Stockholm District Court in 2009 which banned two Pirate Bay founders from running the site, Hollywood says it’s time for them to pay up.

The movie companies say they are confident that Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm are still operating The Pirate Bay and therefore they should each pay their 500,000 kronor fines.

Often when a company is acquired, its users celebrate all the new resources the site will have, and congratulate the founders on their success.

After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.