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The Retreat Of King Twitter
3:30AM Ryan Tate | With great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great headaches. So after years as the hottest, most talked about startup in Silicon Valley, Twitter is ready to relinquish some control of the national conversation. More »
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Twitter’s Journey To $1 Billion
11:40PM Ryan Tate | Twitter is poised to close a $US50 million funding round that values the microblogging startup at a staggering $US1 billion, according to TechCrunch and AllThingsD. Since closing its last venture round in February, the startup’s value has grown fourfold. More »
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Facebook’s Wacky Prank On Journalism
5:24AM Ryan Tate | The social network can and will f–k with you, as TechCrunch found out, after Facebook targeted an elaborate hoax at just its reporters. More »
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How A ‘Made’ Startup Was Clipped
3:33AM Ryan Tate | Two years ago, music service iLike appeared to be set: Its CEO said it was “made”, its investor mused it could be a “billion-dollar winner” and the press was enthralled. Now the poster child is a cautionary tale. More »
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Zombie Business Model Revived By Hungry Blogs
8:04AM Ryan Tate | Tech blog company GigaOm is starting a subscription research service to drum up cash; some think TechCrunch could soon follow. It would seem everything old in tech media is new again: Bloated dot-com magazines attempted this same tactic amid the popping of the last financial bubble. More »
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