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12:10 PM ET, July 27, 2007

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Jack / Twitter Blog:
Taking a bite out of the big apple  —  First, Twitter was a fun side project, then it was cared for lovingly at Obvious until it was time to form Twitter, Inc. Today, we're excited to announce an important moment for Twitter.  We've raised funding from our friends in New York City at Union Square Ventures.
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Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
Twitter  —  The Internet is largely a communications medium.  It's also used for content distribution, commerce, and a number of other things.  But the thing I do most on the Internet is communicate.  Via email, Skype, instant messaging, blogging, commenting, and twittering.  It makes sense.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Twitter Lesson: No Business Plans Please  —  Seeing that Twitter closed a funding round, and spotting the associated incredulity about Evan's company not having a business plan, reminded me of something: Whatever your feelings about Twitter, business plans are overrated, and profits perhaps even more so.
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Earnings: BSkyB Profit Drops Nine Percent On Broadband Costs; Revenues Rise 10 Percent  —  BSkyB's (NYSE:BSY) profit fell 10 percent to £815 million ($1.7 billion) from £877 million ($1.8 billion) for the first half of 2007 due to the cost of building out a broadband network …
Discussion: The Register
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scee.presscentre.com:
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE AND SKY JOIN FORCES TO DELIVER …
Discussion: Joystiq and Gadget Lab
Steve O'Hear / last100:
Sony and Sky to deliver video-on-demand to PSP
Discussion: The Register
Steven Zeitchik / Variety:
HBO comedy site shut down  —  This Just In offered celebrity riffs, comic videos  —  This Just In, the comedy site HBO envisioned as both a brand extension and a potential development pipeline, is being shut down just six months after launching.  —  Time Warner will unwind the venture …
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Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
This Just In Will Go Offline at HBO
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
BBC:
Google 'the most improved brand'  —  Google is the brand that has gained the most in value over the past year, according a survey of global brands.  —  The report from Interbrand found that Google's brand value had risen 44% in the past 12 months to $17.8bn (£8.8bn), which put it in 20th place.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and WebProNews
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Business Week:
Q&A with Google's VP of Marketing
Discussion: Valleywag
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Is Google on Crack?  —  This week I was supposed to explain why U.S. broadband prices are so much higher and U.S. broadband speeds are so much lower than in most other developed countries, but then Google made an unexpected reckless move in the wireless bandwidth market and here I am trying to explain it.
Discussion: Geek Speaker
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Cringely Calls Google 700MHz Bid A Feint
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
VMware lands Cisco as investor  —  Cisco Systems said Friday it will invest $150 million in VMware, joining Intel as a strategic investor.  —  After the investment Cisco will own 1.6 percent of VMware's outstanding shares.  VMware will also consider appointing a Cisco executive to its board in the future.
Discussion: eWEEK.com and Inquirer
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AOL:
Think You Might Be Addicted to Email?  You're Not Alone  —  New AOL Survey Reveals that More Americans are Using Portable Devices to Email Around the Clock from Virtually Anywhere - in the Bathroom, While Driving and Even in Church  —  83% of Email Users Checking on Vacation; Many Plan Getaways Around Access
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Now We're Not Talking: Telstra Bans Facebook  —  Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company, has banned its approximately 49,000 employees from using Facebook.  —  As Cameron Reilly at G'Day World puts it, "This would be a retarded move for ANY company, let alone a company …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Offers a Web-Based Strategy  —  Microsoft executives said Thursday that they intend to respond to the growing threat to its software posed by new rivals like Google that offer Web-based versions of its applications.  —  The executives said Microsoft would add similar Internet services …
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Marc Gunther / Fortune:
Washington Post's survival fight  —  Newspapers are dying.  At the Washington Post Co., CEO Donald Graham is banking on the Internet to save serious journalism.  If he can't figure this out, nobody can.  Fortune's Marc Gunther reports.  —  (Fortune Magazine) — Barry Svrluga …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Online Publishers Need To Stop Selling Space
Discussion: HipMojo.com
BBC:
BBC online video service launches  —  The BBC's flagship online TV service is being launched, offering viewers the chance to download their favourite programmes from the last seven days.  —  For director general Mark Thompson, the launch of iPlayer is as big a milestone as the arrival of colour TV.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Is this the new iMac keyboard?  —  See that?  That's the rumored, "super slim," brushed aluminum keyboard said to be accompanying Apple's new iMac computer.  It certainly appears to share the key design of the MacBook like we heard but seeing "Photoshop" in the exif data doesn't give us a high degree of confidence here.
David Lawsky / Reuters:
EU Says Intel Tried to Squeeze Out Advanced Micro  —  BRUSSELS (Reuters)—The European Union's top antitrust regulator has charged that Intel tried to use its huge market share to push smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices out of the central processing unit business.
Discussion: PC World
 
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What's Really Going On With Podtech?
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Cuban: The Internet Is Dead
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Alan Davidson / Google Public Policy Blog:
Eric Schmidt's summer of public policy
Discussion: WebProNews
Andrew Wallenstein / Reuters:
DailyMotion video hub turning heads in Hollywood
Wily Ferret / Inquirer:
Intel hunts for graphics driver expert
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Gord Hotchkiss / Search Engine Land:
Ad Quality And User Experience: Interview With Google's Nick Fox And Diane Chang
Discussion: Out of My Gord
BBC:
Game worlds show their human side
Ray Ozzie / Microsoft:
Financial Analyst Meeting 2007
Search Engine Marketing News Articles & Events:
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
A Thaw in Investment Prospects for Sex-Related Businesses? Maybe
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking