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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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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple event rumored for March 24 with iMacs, maybe more — Apple's latest update to the iMac line may come on March 24. Two websites report that “sources” have leaked information about a late March special event that will usher in some long-awaited hardware updates to the iMac, and possibly even the Mac mini and the Mac Pro.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Skittles: Tweet the rainbow (or racial slurs) — In what is either a sign of Twitter's continued transition to the mainstream or of a candy company's epic laziness, Skittles.com is now simply a Twitter Search result page for the candy. — Yes, go visit Skittles.com in your web browser …
Vivek Wadhwa / Business Week:
Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S. — New research shows that highly skilled workers are returning home for brighter career prospects and a better quality of life — As the debate over H-1B workers and skilled immigrants intensifies, we are losing sight of one important fact …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Why Windows Mobile 6.5's honeycomb menu is not just a “glorified grid”, rather, simple ingenuity — Several weeks ago, some pundits were quick to dismiss Windows Mobile 6.5's honeycomb menu as a “glorified grid”, an Engadget editorial put it - “a sign that Microsoft has gone out of its way to avoid a grid” …
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Live Search to get new features...oh and a new brand, too — Live Search, keeping to a Spring and Fall update schedule, is set to unveil its new name sometime this spring, and now thanks to Twitter it is more than just rumor. We've been hearing about a possible rebrand for quite some time …
Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report:
Fred Wilson shows off integrated Twitter Search, featured users — In a presentation to a group of TV execs., Fred Wilson (a VC with Union Square Ventures, one of Twitter's investors) showed off what appears to be integrated search in Twitter. As seen on slide 22 of Wilson's presentation …
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William Pesek / Bloomberg:
IPod Solution May Save Wall Street From Ruin: Commentary by William Pesek — Michael Stumm is an accidental currency guy. — Toronto-based Stumm is a founder of Oanda Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based foreign-exchange trading and information. It's an unlikely career turn for a computer scientist …
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 …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
SmartMoney Finds Using Fewer Ads Can Boost Click-Through — Users More Likely to Pay Attention When There Aren't So Many Units — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When it comes to the supply-and-demand balance of online advertising, the supply side is winning — and that's hurting click-through rates and CPMs …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Excerpt — When the popular New York business blog Silicon Alley Insider quoted a quarter of Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column in mid-February, the editor added a caveat at the end: “We thank Dow Jones in advance for allowing us to bring it to you.”
Dale Dougherty / O'Reilly Radar:
The Sizzling Sound of Music — Are iPods changing our perception of music? Are the sounds of MP3s the music we like to hear most? — Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, was on a panel with me at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Mountain View, CA on Saturday.
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Financial Times:
3G wrong number forces change of strategy — Greg Brown, Motorola's joint chief executive, offers a devastating critique of the company as he explains the calamitous decline of its mobile phone business. — Industry analysts point to Motorola's unprofitable dash to increase market share …
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
Agence France Presse:
Twitter takes Washington by storm — WASHINGTON (AFP) — The halls of the US Congress are alive with the sounds of Twitter. Members of the Senate and House of Representatives — or their aides — are tapping out dozens of the micro messages a day on cellphones and computers from offices …
