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Twitter May Buy Summize

A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won’t comment on whether an actual sale has occurred, or the terms of more...
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Changing Startup Culture: Ning, Twitter Viral VC Ventures

Donna Bogatin writes that of the Ning assumption that visions of fast-growing, highly scalable, multi-billion dollar viral (not so serendipitous) hits must be highly financed if the end-game of a lucrative more...
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Acquisition: Twhirling Seesmic's Underweb

Ross Mayfield shares his wisdom on the latest buzz on the acquisition drama that is unfolding (first revealed by TechCrunch): Seesmic of San Francisco has acquired the Twitter client Twhirl and thus makes more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

4 Startups: Taking the Pulse of the Twittersphere

Josh Catone examines four startups that are trying to build off the success of Twitter and provides their pluses and minuses. These are: Twitter Census, Twitter Answers, Straw Poll and TwittPoll. So, more...
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Another Twitter For Pictures Twitxr is

Fon company founder Martin Varsavsky has announced that his company which has built the largest WiFi community is now coming out with a new offering - Twitter with pictures or video and thus enters the more...
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Twitter's Open Platform Advantage

Twitter from the beginning has kept itself open, resulting in many applications based on its API. The old perception is that closed data is a competitive advantage. The new reality is that open data is more...
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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse

ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Twitter has captured our imagination and bloggers in particular and become a new hybrid of chat, social networking and blogging. Further Josh adds "Twitter still exists outside more...
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Introducing Prologue - competition to Twitter

Happy with Twitter but not fully and therefore Joseph Scott and Matt Thomas decided to tackle this problem and within a few days they had a new theme for us: Prologue. Imagine it like a group Twitter. more...
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Pownce - Too Little, Too Late?

Mark Evans tries to examine what is up with Pownce which is available to the general public from midnight onwards. Pownce has a business model unlike the more popular Twitter but has been struggling to more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mobile 2.0  |  

What will make Twitter a billion-dollar business in 12-24 months.

Imagine if every 10th, 20th, or 100th tweet was an advertisement. Would that be so horrible? No, not at all. "your free Twitter account is brought to you by Apple's iPhone" would be perfectly acceptable more...
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