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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Sorry to Get You All A-Twitter, but Google Is Not in “Late-Stage Talks” to Acquire the Hot Microblogging Service — While the “news” that Google was in “late-stage” talks to acquire Twitter, which TechCrunch reported last night, certainly sounds exciting, it isn't accurate in any way …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter (Updated) — Here's a heck of a rumor that we've sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don't know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation …
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Sometimes We Talk — My inbox is flooded this morning with requests for a response to the latest Internet speculation about where Twitter is headed. It should come as no surprise that Twitter engages in discussions with other companies regularly and on a variety of subjects.
Hans Wu / DigiTimes:
OmniVision lands CIS orders for next-generation iPhone — OmniVision has received 3.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) orders for Apple's next-generation iPhone, according to market sources. The company is also said to have secured 5-megapixel CIS orders for another Apple product expected to be launched later in the year.
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Chris Davies / iPhone Buzz:
3.2MP next-gen iPhone, new 5MP Apple device later this year? — Apple will upgrade the next-gen iPhone's camera to 3.2-megapixels, according to market sources in Asia. Manufacturer OmniVision is believed to have won the Apple contract to supply the 3.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor used in the smartphone …
Nate Mook / BetaNews:
Outcry and complaints come after carriers threaten to block Skype on the iPhone — Should wireless operators have a right to ban VoIP applications from their data networks, or even public hotspots? — Consumer and technology advocacy groups in both the United States and Europe are asking …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
IBM And Sun: There Will Be Blood — With significant overlaps in the companies' businesses, a merger could trigger as many as 10,000 layoffs. — When titans collide, blood runs. And as rumors circulated Friday that IBM and Sun Microsystems are inching toward a deal to sell …
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Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Paying for online news: Sorry, but the math just doesn't work. — The morning's RSS scan brings another couple of entrants in the ongoing conversation about paying for news on newspaper web sites: — As Roy Greenslade reports, News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch favors charging …
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Analyst: YouTube Could Lose $470M This Year — A new report by Credit Suisse projects that video-sharing giant YouTube is on track to lose $470 million this year, writes Multichannel News. — Credit Suisse says YouTube will generate $240 million in revenue, but those revenues will be dwarfed …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Google Uses Twitter to Sell Ads — Intuit Is First Marketer to Have Its Tweets Streamed Across AdSense Network — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Twitter may still be tweaking its own business model, but Google has found a way to use the popular microblogging service to sell ads.
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Revenues this year, Twitter's Biz Stone tells Stephen Colbert — Biz Stone must've been a bit overwhelmed to be invited onto The Colbert Report, but it was never going to be an easy ride. But his comments don't sound like a Google takeover is imminent. — When he got a word in …
Steve Rosenbaum / Silicon Alley Insider:
Can ‘Curation’ Save Media? — There is a trend evolving at media companies both big and small that promises to have a remarkably positive impact on what you read, watch, and share on the web: Curation. — It's not a popular thing to say that things are okay in media.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple stock is up 31 percent this year — The stock is not what it was in 2007, when it rose nearly 136% in the space of 12 months, but Apple (AAPL) is off to a good start in 2009. — From Jan. 2, when it opened at $85.88, to April 2, when it closed at $112.71, Apple has gained 31.24% …
Phone Arena:
Say hello to the enV3 for Verizon — Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — First came the LG V (vx9800), followed by the enV (vx9900) and enV2 (vx9100). Then we heard that the new successor would be the enV3 vx9200, but haven't seen any pictures or specifications...until today.
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Senators introduce bill to curb mobile spam — Two Senators are attempting to curb unsolicited text messages with a bill to strengthen government oversight of commercial texts. — Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) on Thursday introduced the m-SPAM Act …
Google Research Blog:
Predicting the Present with Google Trends — Can Google queries help predict economic activity? — The answer depends on what you mean by “predict.” Google Trends and Google Insights for Search provide a real time report on query volume, while economic data is typically released several days after the close of the month.
Matt Asay / CNET News:
VLC 0.9.9: The best media player just got better — If you've ever struggled to play a file you downloaded from the hinterlands of the Web, you clearly didn't try opening it with VideoLan's VLC media player, a free, hugely popular, and open-source media player.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Wait: Could ‘Bing’ be the new name for Microsoft's Live Search? — Maybe Kumo won't be the final new name for Microsoft's “Live Search” after all. “Bing” also still seems to be in the running. — It was almost a year ago that I received a tip that Microsoft was considering three new names for its Live Search engine.
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Bar Codes In Newspaper Ads Link To Web Content Via Mobile App — Canada's National Post newspaper began using two-dimensional (2D) bar codes this week to link newspaper articles to video and other content. — The link from paper to the Web is made possible through a free downloadable mobile app …
Fred / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
iPods, First Sale, President Obama, and the Queen of England — President Obama reportedly gave an iPod, loaded with 40 show tunes, to England's Queen Elizabeth II as a gift. Did he violate the law when he did so? — You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Two Swedish File-Sharers Arrested — Yesterday we reported that, after the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) came into force earlier this week, Swedish Internet traffic dropped by 30%. Now, just a day later, the first file-sharing related arrests have been announced.
Rob Hof / Business Week:
A Sign of Slowing Search Ad Spending — Search advertising is finally feeling the full impact of the weak economy, according to a new report out this morning from online marketing analytics firm Covario. In fact, search spending fell from quarter to quarter for probably the first time ever, by 1.4% in the first quarter.
