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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads — Twitter will unveil on Tuesday a much-anticipated plan for making money from advertising, finally answering the question of how the company expects to turn its exponential growth into revenue. — The advertising program …
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Hello World — Although our services extend beyond the Web, Twitter ranks as one of the most popular sites on the Internet. Over the years, we've resisted introducing a traditional Web advertising model because we wanted to optimize for value before profit.
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Twitter Has a Business Model: ‘Promoted Tweets’ — Search Ads For Twitter That Split Difference Between ‘Earned’ and ‘Paid’ Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In the four years since Twitter launched, two questions have hung over the micro-blog service: Can it make money? If so, how?
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Will Twitter Twist the Timeline? — Twitter has become more useful as it has ballooned to more than 50 million posts a day. But it has also become harder than ever to dig through all those posts to find the most useful ones. — As Twitter grows up, will its timeline — which shows posts chronologically — have to change?
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Twitter To Roll Out “Promoted Tweets”: Initial Thoughts (Developing)
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Jonathan Burg / Jon Burg's Future Visions:
twitter's “ad” model - the agency perspective
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Opera Press Room:
Approved — Opera Mini App approved for the App Store — Opera today announced its popular mobile browser, Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. Opera Mini will be available as a free download within 24 hours, depending on market.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Surprise, Surprise: Opera Mini iPhone App Gets Apple's Stamp Of Approval — Good news for Opera (and its legions of fans around the world): the company has just announced that its mobile browser Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
A Google Tablet Could Be Good News for Adobe — As Ashlee Vance and I report in a Monday article, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Microsoft and a suite of other companies are hard at work on products that they hope will be iPad killers. — Apple will likely swat at most of these companies …
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Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Gruber: Apple Was Right, Adobe Get Over It [Video] — Daring Fireball's John Gruber has unexpectedly emerged as a central figure in the Apple-Adobe fiasco. It was his treatise on “Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1″ that launched a thousand tweets. And it was his post that Steve Jobs referenced …
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Jennifer Hakes / Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook Pro Line — Faster Processors, Next-Generation Graphics & Up to 10 Hours of Battery Life — Apple® today updated the MacBook® Pro line with faster processors, powerful next-generation NVIDIA graphics and even longer battery life.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources reveal specs of Apple's MacBook Pro refresh
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Steve Jobs: Apple owns the trademark on ‘Pad’ — We told you last week how ContactPad was told by Apple that they could no longer use the -Pad suffix in their name. It may sound a little nuts, but Apple's policy is that they own the trademark on “Pad” and Steve Jobs is going to enforce it.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Steve Jobs Replies to Mail, Apple Is Dropping Support for the iPhone 2G
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Cuil Failed at Search, Now Fails to Copy Wikipedia — During the rise of the Beat movement in the 1950s and '60s, avant-garde writer William S. Burroughs developed a process he called the “cut up” technique, in which he would literally cut out sentences and passages from poems, stories and books …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Flip Slide HD officially official, on sale now — After a week of essentially non-stop leaks from Best Buy, Cisco's finally coming clean with the Flip Slide HD, the newest member of its Flip family. Obviously the big feature here is that pop-up three-inch screen — when folded down and in record mode …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video — Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we've learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announced: Windows Phone roots with a social slant (updated with video) — It's finally official: Microsoft Pink — the product of Redmond's acquisition of Danger — has just been unveiled as a pair of handsets sourced from Sharp (which made most of Danger's Sidekicks) known as the Kin One and Kin Two.
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Microsoft Ushers in the Next Generation of the Social Phone With KIN …
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Kimbal Musk / OneRiot Blog:
Monetizing the Realtime Web - Insights and Challenges after 6 Months — People love to interact in realtime. Last year saw the burst of Twitter into the mainstream and the phenomenal growth of Facebook. People love to interact in realtime, whether it is with each other or with content.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Mary Meeker: Mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet — Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley isn't just any Internet analyst. She was covering the sector when the brokerage firm was the lead underwriter for Netscape Communications' initial public offering in 1995, was dubbed the …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Eric Schmidt on Google's “mobile first” attitude, weaknesses — Google chief executive Eric Schmidt talked on-stage about the company's future this evening at Google's Atmosphere conference for chief information officers. In addition to fielding some general questions about Google's plans …
Jonathan Rochelle / Docs Blog:
A new Google Docs — They say a house is only as good as its foundation, and we believe the same holds true for web applications like Google Docs. With our old foundation, we could continue delivering most features you wanted quickly, but over time it became clear that some just weren't possible.
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Paul Taylor / Financial Times:
Seagate to preload hard drives with movies — Seagate, the world's largest hard drive maker, has teamed up with Paramount Pictures to preload a selection of its portable hard drives with Paramount movies that can then be digitally “unlocked” for viewing. — Seagate and Paramount's digital …
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