May
5
2009
OSXGlitch writes “A post on TechCrunch this morning extends the rumor that Apple wants to buy Twitter with part of their massive cash reserve (estimated at nearly B). The Twitterverse is alive with speculation that the price being discussed is 0 million. This goes against reports that Twitter’s founders aren’t interested in selling, and that they estimate the value of the company at around 0 million. Two questions: How do we all feel about the possibility of Apple owning Twitter? And, can Twitter decline an offer that is nearly three times their estimated worth?”

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May
5
2009
An anonymous reader sends along a sharp and snarky article that takes Google to task for taking longer than expected to award M in its competition to find and fund world-bettering ideas. The submitter comments, “After using its tenth birthday as occasion to solicit philanthropic ideas from Web users through its Project 10^100, Google appears to have backed off from its commitment to provide million in funding to the winner. While the company was supposed to reveal the Project 10^100 winner in February, Google has since delayed the vote once and now suspended it indefinitely, due to the overwhelming response — Google says it received 150,000 entries. A Google spokeswoman wouldn’t commit to a new date, saying only it would be delayed ‘for a while longer.’ She further apologized for the company’s ‘over optimistic assumptions about how quickly we could analyze all the ideas that we’ve received.'”

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May
5
2009
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May
5
2009
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May
5
2009
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May
5
2009
Apple and Twitter are in serious negotiations over a possible 0 million sale of the social networking site, with the deal set to be announced in June if successful.The only question is: would it be called Twapple?



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May
5
2009
Designers love all of those photoshop tutorials that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. Here are 50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects



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May
5
2009
Is it true? Did someone just log in as me? I checked the OpenID logs, and sure enough, there was a valid login from an IP address I didn’t recognize. He wasn’t bluffing. He really did log in as me.



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May
5
2009
There are many theories to what constitutes good typography, its not as simple as choosing an appropriate font and setting it in the style of a particular project, that would be too easy. Theories and tutorials are one thing, putting typography into perfect practice is another, and is perhaps the hardest part of any design.



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May
5
2009
A developer has filed a lawsuit for trademark infringement against Google and 47 other companies over their involvement in the Android OS. It turns out that Specht has owned the trademark to “Android” since 2002 because of his company, Android Data, though there are some holes in his company history that could help Google



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