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Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Facebook's Thiel Explains Failed Twitter Takeover — The social network intends to grow during the downturn, but Facebook's imprecise and illiquid stock valuation limited its appeal to Twitter — Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter …
Alex Brooks / World of Apple:
Apple Event Scheduled for March 24? [Updated] — A source has disclosed to World of Apple that Apple is planning to hold an event on March 24 to unveil new desktop hardware. The source which has been confirmed to be in reach of such information stated that the event would be similar to the notebook event held by Apple last October.
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VentureBeat, Ars Technica, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, The iPhone Blog, Insanely Great Mac and Edible Apple
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Skittles: The Homepage is the Conversation — Love this: — http://skittles.com/ — The home page is literally a Twitter search for “skittles”. That's a brand embracing the conversation. Well done.
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:
Analysis: Safari 4 lifts Apple above 10% browser market share … Analysis - February turned out to be the month of the beta browsers, in a more significant way than we have seen in any other month before. While overall market shares remained relatively stable for the top 5 of browser developers …
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T may be looking to launch handset trade-in program — Treat this one as a rumor and nothing more for the time being, but we just got some details on a “Phone Trade-In” program that AT&T is apparently looking to launch sometime around June. From the looks of things …
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Phone Arena, Tech-Ex, The iPhone Blog, IntoMobile, CrunchGear, iPhone Savior, Pulse2 and Engadget
David Gonzales / Electronic Pulp:
Mac OS 7 (System 7) installed and running on the iPhone — While it was fun to see Windows 3.1 running on Nokia's N95, it probably didn't sit well with some Apple fans. “What about our iPhone? Isn't there anything that can be done to install a Mac OS on it besides the mobile OS X that it's already got?”
Thanks:davidvgonzales
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter VC Laughs at the Idea that Twitter Has No Business Model — Todd Dagres, founder of Spark Capital and one of the VCs that poured an additional $35 million into Twitter recently, finds it amusing when people talk about Twitter's lack of a business model.
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Five things every Windows beta tester should know — Last week my colleague Mary Jo Foley reported on rumblings of discontent from the invitation-only Windows 7 technical beta test community: … This was all in response to another epic post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog by Steven Sinofsky …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Microsoft Sees a Future That You Won't — [Editor's Note: I'm playing catchup from the stomach flu. March 1st and 2nd posts will be shorter and more responses to current events than my more typical forward-looking analyses.] — The “Future Vision Montage” video, “2019,” comes out of Office Labs.
Jack Arrington / TechCrunch:
Information Technology, 50 Years Ago — This guest post is written by Jack Arrington, who contributed 50% of the genetic material required to produce TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Jack was around at the very beginning of what we today call the Information Technology business.
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Bruce Sterling / Beyond the Beyond:
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 — *By the garbled reportage, I'd be guessing some of those kiwis were having trouble with my accent. Here are the verbatim remarks. — THE BRIEF BUT GLORIOUS LIFE OF WEB 2.0, AND WHAT COMES AFTER — Bruce Sterling, Wellington, Feb 2009
DEMO.com:
Watch DEMO 09 Live on the Web — If you are not basking in the Palm Desert sun here at DEMO 09, you still have a chance to see 39 great companies launch their latest innovations to the world live from the DEMO stage. — DEMO is broadcasting the entire DEMO 09 conference live …
