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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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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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MediaPost, Google Watch, Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider, Scobleizer, MediaFile, GMSV, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and WinBeta
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Showdown: Why Microsoft can't afford to lose Twitter to Google — Earlier this year, as Microsoft executives continued to lust publicly for a Yahoo search agreement, I started to wonder why the Redmond company wasn't turning its attention to Twitter instead.
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 …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Report: Apple's next iPhone to sport 3.2-megapixel camera — Apple has placed orders with a local component supplier for new parts that suggest it will upgrade the iPhone's camera to 3.2-megapixels when it introduces new models a bit later this year. — Citing its usual 'market sources …
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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New York Times:
I.B.M. Reportedly Will Buy Rival Sun for $7 Billion — I.B.M. appears on the verge of acquiring Sun Microsystems, a longtime rival in the computer server and software markets, for nearly $7 billion. — The two companies have been negotiating for weeks, ironing out terms of an agreement …
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CNET News, San Francisco Chronicle, CrunchGear, TechSpot, OStatic blogs and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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.
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Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
If You're Going To Complain About Street View Invading Your Privacy, You Might Want To Check Out What Your Government Is Doing — The British government appears to be on a track to undermine its citizens' privacy by collecting more and more information about their online behavior …
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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.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
France approves main section of tough anti-P2P bill — While New Zealand has decided to scrap its “graduated response” law and rewrite it from scratch, French legislators are pushing ahead to pass the Création et Internet law that would boot repeat file-sharers from the Internet for up to a year at a time.
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MacNN:
German carrier blocks use of Skype iPhone app — German iPhone owners have been banned from fully exploiting the recently-released Skype app, writes the Associated Press. In spite of the title being legally available to download from the country's App Store, T-Mobile warns that it considers use …
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Peter Parkes / Skype Blogs:Skype for iPhone zooms past one million downloads
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9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, Electricpig.co.uk, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, The Apple Core, TechCrunch and BetaNews
Holly Stewart / IBM Internet Security Systems …:
Counting Confickers — Now that the ambiguity about what is going to happen on April 1 (nothing) is behind us, the next question that seems to be on everyone's mind is how many infections are really out there. We've been holding off on releasing our numbers because we keep seeing the numbers climb considerably each day.
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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.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
RIM's secret weapon: Carriers' profitability and lower bandwidth consumption — RIM's fourth quarter was impressive on many fronts: Inventories were low and carriers have to restock, consumer and business demand was strong, gross margins were better than expected and earnings and the company's outlook handily topped estimates.
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.
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DiggBar Keeps All Digg Homepage Traffic On Digg — DiggBar, the new shortURL and toolbar service from Digg, is certainly useful. I expect it to become my default short URL service on Twitter since it is so easy to create a short URL by simply adding Digg.com/ in front of any URL.
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:DiggBar Launches Today!
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Fast Company, Michael Gray, the Econsultancy blog, Electricpig.co.uk, CNET News and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
Ryan Naraine / Threatpost Blog:
Microsoft issues PowerPoint zero-day warning — Microsoft has issued an advisory to warn about an under-attack zero-day vulnerability affecting its PowerPoint software. — According to the pre-patch advisory, the flaw allows remote code execution if a user opens a booby-trapped PowerPoint file.
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