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Twitter is Putting Patents Back in the Hands of Inventors
TweetAmid these massive patent battles being fought among technology companies in the US and across the world, Twitter aims to disrupt the field by introducing a patent agreement that would place the authority over the patents it has claims to to its own employees instead. A wide adoption of this policy would have a wide-ranging [...]
Why a Twitter Acquisition by Apple Makes Little Sense
TweetMathew Ingram at GigaOm highlights a scenario by financial analyst Barry Rithotlz in which he argues that given Apple’s massive hoard of cash, it should buy Twitter. Following Apple’s successive failures (or perhaps delayed successes?) in trying to get into the social scene, its deep partnership with Twitter is giving both Apple and Twitter a [...]
Regarding Twitter’s Acquisition of Posterous
TweetThis morning we were greeted with the surprising news that four year old blogging site Posterous has been acquired by Twitter. My first reaction was “holy shit!” It was difficult to even digest that news as there are several factors that made no sense in this acquisition and only one does. Twitter is a short [...]
Twitter acquires Posterous
TweetSocial network platform acquires blog platform. That’s what happened when Twitter acquires Posterous. This acquisition is a takeover of Posterous’ entire resources (personnel) into Twitter’s engineering team. Unlike a number of other similar acquisitions which lead to the closure of the acquired company, this will not disrupt activities on Posterous Spaces which will remain operational. [...]
Interest Graph Powers Twitter’s Advertising Efforts
TweetBloomberg Businessweek profiles Twitter in its latest issue and goes deep into its journey to find the right business model and revenue generator that do not repel its highly sensitive members. Following a turmoil in its first four years, Twitter found stability in 2011 and is set to soar in 2012 with its newly minted [...]
mig33 Launches Twitter-like Miniblog
Tweetmig33 strengthened its base in social networking services by launching a miniblog similar to Twitter. With this miniblog, mig33 users can send messages using 140 characters that are integrated with third-party service games, avatars, profiles, and chat. As quoted from VentureBeat, mig33 CEO Mr Steve Goh said, “We think miniblog could be a liaison, unifying our [...]
Twitter Dramas
TweetTwitter is so full of dramas. I have not been paying much attention to the details but I was aware of it. I have been once or twice stuck in a conversation with someone entirely about what happened on ‘the timeline’ last night. Not that I am being patronizing or anything but I had other [...]
Visiting Facebook, Twitter and Techcrunch Summer Party in Silicon Valley
TweetNo, unfortunately I wasn’t the one visiting Silicon Valley but the privilege went to Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, the former CEO Plasa.com and currently the Managing Partner for Nusantara Ventures. She visited Silicon Valley to meet some of the most influential people in the tech industry, and she’s kind enough to share her story with us (so [...]
BBM social platform does not mean BBM on iOS or Android
TweetLast week Research In Motion announced the availability of its BlackBerry Messenger social platform software development kit for Java, not today as we erroneously reported shortly before this post, but we’ll address that issue separately. What this SDK means however, is not something that apparently many think it does. The release of the BBM social [...]
Facebook’s Billion Dollar Paranoia