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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Twitter VC Funding Done. Raises $15 MM — I spent most of the day digging up more information on Twitter and its new round of funding that I reported last night. The update is that Twitter reached an agreement with investors today to raise $15 million in funding at around $80 million pre-money valuation.
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Jack / Twitter Blog:
I have this graph up on my screen all the time. It should be flat. This week has been rough. — We've gone through our various databases, caches, web servers, daemons, and despite some increased traffic activity across the board, all systems are running nominally. The truth is we're not sure what's happening.
Andrew Zaeske / Official Google Blog:
Google Sites now open to everyone — A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now we've made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information …
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Sites Available Without Google Apps — As promised when the service was launched as part of Google Apps, now you can use Google Sites without having a domain. “A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback — Most are negative. Some excessively so. After hearing Bill Gates give the pitch and trying the service myself to make a couple of purchases, here's what I think: It's a bold move that goes for Google's throat …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Whoa: Microsoft Cashback Google-Killer Generates NO Revenue For Microsoft
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Hey Microsoft: Bribing Searchers Is Fine; Frustrating Them Is Not!
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Daydreaming: Report Predicts Move Toward Home Devices — Predicting the new gadgets that Apple might concoct next is a favorite parlor game of the technology industry, Wall Street and the blogosphere. The latest chatter is that company CEO Steve Jobs will reveal at a developer …
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Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple products for 2013 - report, speculation — Apple has huge plans to stake space in the digital home, and could introduce a slew of products to this end in the years ahead - at least, that's what Forrester Research believes. — As reported by the Wall Street Journal …
BBC:
Gamer anger at Nokia's ‘lock in’ — Gamers have hit out at Nokia after learning that N-Gage titles bought for their handsets are locked to that specific device forever. — If a gamer changes or upgrades to a diferent Nokia handset they have to purchase the games again if they want to continue playing.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google Says It Will Defend Competitive Rationale of a Yahoo Deal — How can Google, the Internet search and advertising giant, contend that teaming up with Yahoo in search ads would not invite an antitrust challenge? — Under a proposed partnership, Google would let Yahoo use …
PR Newswire:
AT&T Nears Completion of 3G Wireless Technology Deployment that Delivers Broadband Wireless Speeds - for Downloads and Uploads — AT&T Will Be First in U.S. to Fully Deploy HSPA Technology in Its Wireless Network, Giving Customers Unsurpassed Speeds of up to 1.4 Mbps (Down), 800 Kbps (Up)
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Doing A Fake Story For Linkbait? Disclose — Or Face The Wrath Of Google — Link baiting entered a new area last week when Lyndon Antcliff had success with a fake story being picked up by some mainstream media sites as well as social news sites. Controversy erupted over the tactic …
iSmashPhone:
Proof that the infamous “Enable 3G” iPhone screenshot is a photoshop — Do you remember this screenshot? — It ran circles through tech-sites and iPhone blogs. — And guess what? We were 100% right. — How do we know we were right? Follow along.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
The next time you complain about a company on Twitter, Get Satisfaction may be listening — While it wasn't made very clear during its outages over the past several months, Twitter has been using the online customer service site, Get Satisfaction to respond to customer complaints.
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Disqus And Profy — First Step To Totally Portable Blogging — I am in Blogger jail right now. — And the capital “b” in Blogger was intentional. I mean the blogging platform from Google called “Blogger.” — I feel like I am in jail because I want total blogging platform portability.
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