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• Accused Of Being A Copy Cat, Microsoft Suspends Its Twitter-Like Service In China

  PaidContent - 2009-12-15

  Less than a month after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched a microblogging service in China, the company has pulled the product off the market, among rampant accusations that it had blatantly copied a competitor’s own microblogging service. In a statement issued late last night, Microsoft said, “Because questions have been...

  Tags: China, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intellectual Property, Blogging, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Microsoft, Twitter, Countries, Asia, Joseph Tartakoff

• Russell Simmons' Global Grind Buys CelebrityTweets.com

  PaidContent - 2009-12-08

  Hip hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons’ Global Grind has purchased CelebrityTweet.com, which aggregates Tweets from celebrities, including Simmons himself. Global Grind features a wide array of coverage geared towards hip hop fans, including videos, a number of celebrity blogs and political news. In a release, it says it will continue...

  Tags: Russell Simmons, Global Grind, Entrepreneurship, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Communications, Corporate Law, Blogging, Management, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Internet, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Microsoft signs Facebook and Twitter data deals

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-21

  Microsoft is teaming up with Twitter and Facebook to incorporate tweets and status updates into its Bing search engine. The incorporation of real-time results into Bing makes Microsoft the first major search engine to embrace what many consider the next leap forward in search. Google has also announced a...

  Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Search, Web 2.0, Finance, Internet, Twitter, Jasper Jackson

• Google also inks search deal with Twitter

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-21

  Google will now include Twitter posts in its search results in a bid to provide up-to-the-minute user data and compete with Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which is also set to index tweets. The news was revealed on Google’s blog just hours after Microsoft announced at the Web 2.0 conference...

  Tags: Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Search, Blogging, Internet, Twitter, George Mitton

• Twitter in advanced search talks with Microsoft - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-20

  Twitter is reportedly close to signing a search deal that will allow Microsoft to incorporate tweets into its Bing search engine. Tech blog All Things Digital reports that sources close to the negotiations say that engineers and executives from both firms are hammering out details of a non-exclusive deal,...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Web 2.0, Search, Finance, Internet, Twitter, Jasper Jackson, Google Inc.

• Twitter Speaks: How to Save Newspapers

  BNET - 2009-08-16

  I've been eagerly awaiting news of the world's first novel written over Twitter, in 140-character bursts, to be read backwards in time. You can bet it's coming, but until then, check this new non-fiction book out. In "The World According to Twitter," by New York Times columnist David Pogue, there...

  Tags: Twitter, Zephoria, Internet, David Weir

• Tech Law: Facebook to Open Code, Twitter Sued Over Patents, More

  BNET - 2009-08-10

  Facebook must turn over source code in a patent suit; TechRadium sues Twitter; the first criminal prosecution of domain name theft is about to happen; Microsoft and Yahoo start the regulatory paperwork for their deal; SCO gets a bankruptcy trustee appointed by a judge; and the Activision/Double Fine dispute over...

  Tags: Facebook, Patent, Domain Name, Twitter, Bankruptcy, Domain Names, Litigation, Personal Finance, Games, Internet, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Erik Sherman

• Tr.im Shuts Down; Is There A Business In URL Shortening?

  PaidContent - 2009-08-10

  In the market for URL shorteners, it helps to have an "in" with Twitter. Shortening service TinyURL has seen its traffic sink since it was replaced by bit.ly as the default URL shortener on Twitter and tr.im has flat out given up. On a post on the tri.m blog...

  Tags: Twitter, Tr.im, Bit.ly, Blogging, Internet, Money, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff

• The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook—and some details are emerging about this morning's cyber attacks:—Some third-party Twitter applications took longer to come back online than Twitter. For instance, Sawhorse Media, which runs Tweet aggregating sites, such as Muck Rack and Venture Maven, only began surfacing Tweets again...

  Tags: Network, Outage, Twitter, Social Networking, Internet, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.

• The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook—and some details are emerging about this morning's cyber attacks:—Some third-party Twitter applications took longer to come back online than Twitter. For instance, Sawhorse Media, which runs Tweet aggregating sites, such as Muck Rack and Venture Maven, only began surfacing Tweets again...

  Tags: Network, Outage, Twitter, Social Networking, Internet, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.