Sunday Roundup: Top Internet Stories This Past Week – 9.20-9.27.09
100 Million to the Twitter Corp
According to various sources on the net – this past week – Twitter received 100 million in funding to bring the Corporation to a whooping 1 billion dollar value. Investors Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Morgan Stanley initially wished to remain private about the deal until Friday Sep 25, 2009.
Which begs the question, why? Why would anyone invest this type of capital into a business for only 10% stake in a corporation that has yet to implement a solid revenue generating plan? Is there an Initial Public Offer waiting around the corner? Does twitter have an ace up its sleeve? …
Twitter will not promote Ads this Year
According to co-founder Biz Stone, Twitter has no intentions of pushing ads on this site this year. Instead their main focus will be on creating business accounts that will offer a subset of additional features such as improved search capabilities…
Medical Students Crossing the Line on Facebook and other Social Media
13 Percent of all medical students taking part in a recent survey by the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a breach in doctor patient confidentiality by posting confidential information publicly online.
The survey conducted consisted of 60% of all US medical schools – in which – 60% percent of all respondents reported posting “unprofessional content” online.
Since no official policies have been created – schools have not been able to take official action against students…
Facebook partners up with Nielsen to Track You
In an effort to better optimize Facebook ads Nielson plans to implement a new advertising measuring tool, dubbed BrandLift. BrandLift will basically work by eliciting users with annoying survey questions on a purely volunteer basis. This comes after – what many have determined to be a failure on the part of Facebook to successfully manage client advertising campaigns…
ATT&T cries Foul Against Google Voice
While ATT&T stands fast with the notion that they had no part in rejecting Google Voice App from the iPhone, they are complaining to the FCC about how Google Voice should operate.
ATT&T claims that Google Voice should operate exactly as ATT&T does, even though the Google Voice uses a the internet to run its service…
Apple pushes Intel to produce Light Peak Cable
Intel introduced its new Light Peak technology earlier this past week. What is light peak you ask? Light peak is a new form of blazing fast optical data transfer that is said to be 10x as fast as your current gigabit ethernet cable (the one for your internet connection ). The rate at which data can travel over this optical cable is somewhere around 10 Gbps.
It is have been unveiled by Engadget that Apple plans to replace all computer ports with this new technology and has been the driving force behind this new innovation since 2007.
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