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eMarketer:
Twitter Ad Revenues to Soar This Year — Marketers will spend $150 million on the service in 2011 — Twitter has received enough media attention to be a household word, but still has a relatively small audience. The Pew Internet & American Life Project found in September 2010 that just 8% of online Americans used the service.
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ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, MediaMemo and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Twitter's Ad Revenue May Triple to $150 Million, EMarketer Says — Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. will probably more than triple its advertising revenue to $150 million this year as more companies use it to spread marketing messages, according to Internet researcher EMarketer Inc.
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Fast Company, SAI, @eric_andersen, Online Social Media and Mashable!
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Tim Cook Is Running Apple, but Not Imitating Steve Jobs — On an 18-hour flight from California to Singapore a few years ago, Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, had little time for small talk with a colleague. Glued to his business class seat, Mr. Cook had his nose in spreadsheets …
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Android Authority, The Huffington Post, TheAustralian, Edible Apple and San Francisco Chronicle
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Tim Cook's Auburn Commencement: Joining Apple best decision he ever made — Earlier this year, Apple COO and acting leader Tim Cook addressed his Alma Mater at their commencement. Cook talking about Apple starting at 3:45 and the bulk of his speech is about his decision to move to Apple even though it made little sense on paper.
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Edible Apple
John W. Daly / TechEye:
Nvidia's Tegra 2 3D unveiled — A deep throat has leaked an image of Nvidia's Mobile World Congress presentation to TechEye - giving a glimpse of what the jolly green goblin has in store for punters and handset makers this year. — Nvidia will be shipping a Tegra 2 3D processor this year …
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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks — It was on Christmas Day that Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan first noticed strange things going on in Tunisia. Reports started to trickle in that political-protest pages were being hacked.
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O'Reilly Radar
Kellex / Droid Life:
Comparison Chart: Motorola XOOM vs. iPad — The price of the Motorola XOOM has been quite the topic of discussion over the last couple of days so we thought we'd drop some additional information into the conversation. Here is a comparison chart of the XOOM ($699) to the 32GB 3G iPad ($729).
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The Apple Core Blog, GottaBeMobile, @carlesdijous, Droid Attic, Android and Me and Engadget
Dave Troy: Fueled:
Is Groupon the new “Jesus Startup?” — 50% Off Loaves and Fishes... Every few years a company emerges that grows so swiftly that it manages to define the zeitgeist and often helps to inflate a bubble that defies any rational explanation. Often these businesses are driven by new …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla offers do-not-track tool to thwart ads — Mozilla, acting on a U.S. Federal Trade Commission proposal, has offered a detailed mechanism by which Firefox and other Web browsers could prevent Web pages from tracking people's online behavior for advertising purposes.
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Inside Apple's numbers — On Monday last week we hear Steve Jobs is taking another medical leave of absence and, on Tuesday, we get a look at Apple's numbers for Q1 2011 (which is actually the last quarter of 2010). — Brian Hall provides this crisp summary: — • Sales: $26.74 billion, up 70.5% year over year
Chris Farrell / Business Week:
In Case of Tech Bubble, Do Not Break Glass — Even if bloated valuations of Facebook and Groupon point to another bubble bound to burst, the Fed shouldn't head it off but prepare for the fallout — In Silicon Valley, it's beginning to feel like déjà vu all over again.
Jonathan Amos / BBC:
Mobile phone to blast into orbit — Development of the satellite is now quite advanced — British engineers are planning to put a mobile phone in space. — The team at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford want to see if the sophisticated capabilities in today's phones …
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Inquirer, Telegraph, Android Phone Fans, The Next Web, Online Social Media, Disruptors and textually.org
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A To Do List For Google's New CEO Larry Page — Welcome back, Larry! When you were last CEO of Google in 2001, the company was a much loved scrappy underdog with a bright future. Ten years later, you're coming back to the helm. Things have changed. You're soon to be steering …
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TechCrunch, TechEye, AdAge, San Francisco Chronicle, AOL News and Network World, Thanks:ideaversesg
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National Review:
Back to the Future with Peter Thiel — Peter Thiel may be most famous for his role (portrayed by Wallace Langham in The Social Network) as the venture capitalist who gave “The Facebook” the angel investment it needed to really launch. Before that, Thiel was known in Silicon Valley circles as the …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
The Web Just Keeps Getting Bigger (and Faster!) — Akamai's third-quarter Internet traffic report — which should be released on Monday — shows there's no stopping the growth of either broadband or the overall web itself. In the third quarter of 2010, more than 533 million unique IP addresses …
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Fortune
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
Why I Don't Buy the Quora Hype — Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don't claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong—I have no vested interest in the success or failure of Quora.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, @rabois, @arrington, mmoorejones, SAI, @eghosao, @briannorgard, @johnniemanzari, Mario Sundar, @scobleizer and @jason
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