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Archive for February 10th, 2009

Nothing To Report Just Yet (BIZ/Twitter Blog)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

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.

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 …