We held the Crunchies awards on Friday in San Francisco — the awards that honor the year’s highest achievers in technology. The awards were co-hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat, who also selected the nominees. But the ultimate winners were chosen by the readers who voted at the Crunchies website. Here’s a list of the nominees, with the winners highlighted. You can see Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Best Overall Startup winner Facebook, receiving his award and a bottle of Vitamin water (don’t ask me, I was in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show) from [...]

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This year’s third annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those that weren’t watching, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below. Our most sincere congratulations to the winners and to all of the nominees as well. It was an incredibly tight race for many of the categories, and it’s safe to say that everyone on this list is at the top of their field. We’d like to take a moment to point out Facebook’s win for “Best Overall Startup Or Product”, which marks the third [...]

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