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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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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.
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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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 …
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 …
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Digital Daily, Multichannel News, Contentinople, tinyComb, AppScout and fierceonlinevideo.com …
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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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 …
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Image Search Preview Page Overhaul — We've revamped the Yahoo! Image Search preview page to make it a lot easier to use. Now, when you click on an image from the image search results page, the top bar opens to reveal a richer and sleeker interface that displays a larger view of the image …
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.
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.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Sells Franchise Gator To Landmark Interactive; Price Around $20 Million — Microsoft's digital advertising division, which includes what was formerly aQuantive, has sold off its small subsidiary Franchise Gator, to Landmark Interactive, paidContent has learned. The sale price is around $20 million.
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DSLreports:
Is Wolverine Leak Investigation Causing Collateral Damage? - Whatever the cause, FBI raids in Dallas hurt a number of businesses... Earlier this week, an unfinished copy of the upcoming Wolverine movie was leaked via BitTorrent. It's been interesting to watch just how quickly …
Chadwick Matlin / The Big Money:
The Anatomy of a Web Advertising Scam — Investigating the people behind those sketchy flat-stomach ads. — The Internet wants me to have a flat stomach—and it wants me to have it for free. Over the last few months, those flat stomach ads have followed me around the Internet like a beggar asking for money.
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.
