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• yARN: Facebook's disappointing IPO puts other Web businesses on watch

  By Rimin Dutt | 22 May, 2012 15:26

  It should have been a revival of sorts for Web 2.0 public floats. Instead, the social networking giant Facebook’s IPO is turning out to be a dampener, raising questions about its knock-on effects on the fortunes of other social media hopefuls.

• Pesky networking bug stings Twitter

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 June, 2010 08:04

  A networking equipment malfunction has disrupted Twitter, causing the microblogging site to become unavailable to users for hours on Wednesday and forcing company engineers to shut down key features to perform the repairs.

• Twitter gets serious about getting paid

  By Brennon Slattery | 26 May, 2010 00:15

  Twitter has is banning third-party advertisements on its site in a move to control the monetization and integrity of the micro-blogging service. The company is spinning the move, saying it's building a firewall that blocks out advertisements that tarnish Twitter's coherent "timeline." But the real issue here is money, as always. Twitter wants your dough to support its Promoted Tweets platform, rather than allowing every straggler into the party.

• Microsoft researchers test microblogging service

  By Nancy Gohring | 20 March, 2010 08:19

  Microsoft plans to start a small-scale pilot of a microblogging service aimed at business users that it has been experimenting with in Office Labs.

• Me, me, me! 80% of Twitterers tweet mostly about themselves

  By Sharon Gaudin | 02 October, 2009 05:29

  A vast majority of Twitter users are mainly interested in ... well, themselves.

• NewsGator upgrades Social Sites with microblogging

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 30 September, 2009 06:03

  NewsGator's Social Sites, an enterprise social-networking complement to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007, now features Twitter-like microblogging capabilities tailored for workplace communications.

• Tr.im goes open-source, founder questions bit.ly-Twitter link

  By Gregg Keizer | 19 August, 2009 05:43

  Little more than a week after Nambu Network said it was shutting down URL-shortener tr.im, and just days after the service was reactivated, its founder announced he would take the code open-source and give up the attractive URL.

• Possible Twitter lawsuit would dive into murky blog waters

  By Sharon Gaudin | 17 July, 2009 07:38

  If Twitter decides to sue Web sites and bloggers that published information pilfered from its systems by hackers, the company could be diving into murky and largely untested legal waters.

• Twitter spearheads Iranian elections coverage

  By Brad Reed | 16 June, 2009 08:09

  This past weekend, something strange happened in the U.S. media landscape: Twitter helped shape coverage of the Iranian elections protests.

• Twitter says no to ads; So how can site survive?

  By Sharon Gaudin | 21 May, 2009 08:10

  With Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone ruling out advertising on the social network, the question for the online business world is: What will Twitter do to ensure it can survive the long-term?

• Twitter's U.S. users nearly double in March

  By Sharon Gaudin | 17 April, 2009 08:27

  Twitter Inc. continues to be on a roll.

• Report: Cloud computing poised for enterprise adoption

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 12 August, 2008 08:32

  Gartner has named cloud computing, green IT and social-computing platforms among technologies that are poised to reach broad enterprise adoption in the next two to five years.