BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Nothing To Report Just Yet — There was a sudden burst of news early this week surrounding some ideas we’ve shared publicly for quite some time. We’ve been thinking out loud for more than a year about the growing use of Twitter by companies, brands, and other commercial organizations.
Archive for February 10th, 2009
Nothing To Report Just Yet (BIZ/Twitter Blog)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Calling all Carriers - Introducing AdSense for mobile search (Yury Pinsky/Google Mobile Blog)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Yury Pinsky / Google Mobile Blog:
Calling all Carriers — Introducing AdSense for mobile search — In September 2007, we launched Adsense for mobile content so that publishers could join our mobile content network and monetize their sites with Google text ads. — Today, we’re happy to announce a new AdSense product …
Apple, Google, and Palm (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple, Google, and Palm — M.G. Siegler has an intriguing report today regarding the lack of multi-touch support in the current Android OS: … This jibes with a story I heard several months ago from a source who works at Apple, which is that Google showed Apple legal a pre-release […]
Intel demos first-ever 32nm processors (Nilay Patel/Engadget)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Intel demos first-ever 32nm processors — Intel had a little roadmap event today to shed some light on its massive $7b fab investment, and the focus was mostly on the upcoming transition to 32nm processors — highlighted by the first-ever demo of a working 32nm Nehalem-based Westmere chip.
Sirius XM Prepares for Possible Bankruptcy (New York Times)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
New York Times:
Sirius XM Prepares for Possible Bankruptcy — Last summer, Mel Karmazin was rattling off his trademark one-liners to talk up the future of Sirius XM Radio, the combined company he ran that had just been blessed by regulators. — He was planning to cut costs and expand a business …
Sirius XM Prepares Bankruptcy Filing (Zachery Kouwe/New York Times)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Zachery Kouwe / New York Times:
Sirius XM Prepares Bankruptcy Filing — Sirius XM Satellite Radio has been working with advisers to prepare for a possible bankruptcy filing in a move that could put pressure on the satellite company EchoStar, which owns a substantial amount of the company’s debt.
The writing is on the paywall (Nick/Rough Type)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Nick / Rough Type:
The writing is on the paywall — There has been much interesting speculation about the future of the newspaper business in recent weeks. There was Michael Hirschorn’s pre-obituary for the print edition of the New York Times in The Atlantic. He foresees the Times shrinking into “a bigger …
Quinn Spills Value of Facebook Deal (Zusha Elinson/LAW.com)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Zusha Elinson / LAW.com:
Quinn Spills Value of Facebook Deal — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook paid the founders of ConnectU $65 million to settle lawsuits accusing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the wildly successful social-networking Web site, according to a law firm’s marketing brochure.
Twitter to begin charging brands for commercial use (Fiona Ramsay/Marketing magazine)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Fiona Ramsay / Marketing magazine:
Twitter to begin charging brands for commercial use — LONDON - Twitter is planning to charge brands for using the micro-blogging website. — Twitter — Co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing: ‘We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them.
$99 iPhone Coming This Summer: RBC (AAPL) (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
$99 iPhone Coming This Summer: RBC (AAPL) — Apple will start selling a cheaper, ‘entry-level’ iPhone sometime this summer, for around $99 after subsidy, according to “checks,” RBC analyst Mark Abramsky said in a note this morning. — The main cost reductions would come from fewer features …