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iTunes: Over 10 Billion Songs Served

Source: HypeBot
February 26, 2010

Apple has passed the 10 billion songs sold mark on iTunes. The 10 billionth song, “Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash, was purchased by Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia. 

As the winner of the iTunes Countdown to 10 Billion Songs, Louie will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. iTunes is the number one music retailer in the world and features the world's largest music catalog with over 12 million songs. The iTunes Store has a catalog of over 12 ...

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Yahoo Strikes Content-Sharing Partnership with Twitter

Source: Michael Ricci
February 25, 2010

In a battle to woo back Web surfers who are spending more time on social networking sites, Internet portal Yahoo has clinched a deal with Twitter to share content across both properties. Yahoo reached a similar agreement with Facebook in December, expanding the partnership to make it easier for users to share Facebook status updates and other information on Yahoo or share Yahoo sports scores or Flickr photos on Facebook. Twitter offers millions of messages posted every minute. “The information ...

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Apple is a Mobile Device Company

Source: Michael Ricci
February 25, 2010

Here are some snippets from Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook's keynote at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

On mobile: Apple is a mobile device company. That transition began in 1991. Even the Macintosh business has become mostly mobile. The vast majority of Apple's revenue comes from mobile devices or content for mobile devices. On Google: Partner on maps and search, compete on mobile operating system and ...

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Arnold Kim Celebrates 10 Years as Apple Rumor King

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2010

Arnold Kim quit his job treating kidneys to dissect the secrets of his favorite electronics company, the famously confidential Apple.

Kim launched his independent blog MacRumors.com on Feb. 24, 2000 during his fourth year in medical school. His Apple enthusiasm eventually outweighed his passion for nephrology. The medicine stuff, even as much as you enjoy the job, its a lot of stress, a lot of responsibility and certainly isnt what I would choose to do on my free time, said ...

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Exclusive: How Googles Algorithm Rules the Web

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2010

When it comes to finding stuff, there's Google and there's everyone else. Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the worlds most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their search engine even smarter. This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements ...

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iPad, iPhone and Cash Mountain Expected to Dominate Apple Annual Meeting

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2010

When Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs holds his annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders Thursday there will be no shortage of questions for a company famously stingy with information. Shareholders want to know what Jobs has planned for the iPad, whether the iPhone can sustain its growth momentum amid greater competition, and what the company will do with its eye-popping $40 billion cash balance.Apples shares have been treading water around the $200 mark since last October, despite a strong December-quarter earnings ...

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The Twitter Effect on Oscar

Source: Michael Ricci
February 25, 2010

Most of the nominees have accounts -- and some even use them -- but nobody's tweeting for votes in 140-word haikus.

On Twitter, Jesse James has never been one to mince words. He tweets with all the bad boy attitude and mucho macho swagger you'd expect from a celebrity chopper mechanic and star of such reality TV shows as “Jesse James Is a Dead Man" and “Monster Garage." But lately, James' tweets have served a different agenda: chronicling the vagaries ...

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Half of Twitter Tweets Not in English

Source: Michael Ricci
February 25, 2010

Twitter might be a U.S.-based service, but thanks to the company's efforts at expanding its footprint internationally, approximately 50% of all tweets are not in English, Web research firm Semiocast has revealed. According to Semiocast, which examined 2.8 million tweets over two days in February, 50% of all messages sent on Twitter are in English. Japanese, Portuguese, Malay, and Spanish follow English with 14%, 9%, 6%, and 4% of tweet share, respectively. Several other languages, including Arabic and Italian, make ...

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