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Twitter Drops Huge Hint of E-Commerce Plans

The company is testing a dormant menu option that appears to hint that commerce services will be coming soon.

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Following Blockbuster Q2 Results, Twitter’s Stock Opens At Four-Month High | TechCrunch

Twitter is out of the woods -- or so it seems. Following yesterday's impressive earnings report, the company has had a quick and clear reaction from the stock..

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Amazon: Hachette spat can be fixed with lower ebook pricing

The online retail giant says it will be happy to stick with the 30 percent cut it already gets from Hachette ebook sales if the publisher agrees to slash its ebook pricing, a move which Amazon claims would be central to the future of reading.

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Amazon to pour $2B into its Indian retail business

A day after Flipkart announced $1 billion in new funding for its Indian e-tail juggernaut, Amazon says it will invest $2 billion in its own Indian operations.

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Amazon Is Facing A Cloud Crisis, As Microsoft Muscles In

A big part of Amazon's growth strategy -- its cloud-computing business -- is under fire from tough new competitors, led by Microsoft. That raises the question: Is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stretched too thin?

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Sign of stress or just business as usual? AWS sales are off slightly

Sales in the “other” Amazon Web Services category are down slightly quarter to quarter, but were up 38 percent year over year.

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With data centers under renovation, some agencies are using the cloud to meet their disaster recovery and business continuity requirements.

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Net neutrality: What it is, and why you should care

Net Neutrality in a way we can all understand it, thanks to Michael Goodwin of Economix Comix.

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Google Has A $500 Million War Chest To Stop Amazon's Plan For The 'Showrooming Of Groceries'

Supermarkets might end up being very afraid of Amazon and very enthusiastic about Google.

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Source: Rackspace Wants To Take Itself Private | TechCrunch

Rackspace -- the publicly-listed enterprise cloud services company that competes against the likes of Amazon's AWS, Microsoft and Google -- has been in the..

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Twitter Appoints IPO Banker Noto as CFO, Replacing Gupta

Twitter Inc. named former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Anthony Noto as chief financial officer, enlisting the executive who led its initial public offering to help the company regain favor with investors.

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HQ Update: Week 371

Tim Wu (internet good guy and candidate for lieutenant governor of New York State) spoke to us about net neutrality and the legal implications of a robot takeover. Our data center is powered in part by the big yellow sun. Sales flapped their USA flag, and the USA advanced accordingly. More ponging this week, this time with pizza.

Bonus: Two of the ping-pong balls are different from all the others. Can you spot them? 

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Amazon Web Services Sharpens Focus on Public Sector

Hardly content to rest on its laurels, Amazon is adding clients in the government, education and nonprofit sectors, vying for public-sector contracts and looking to build its apps marketplace into a research and development hub.

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Net Neutrality Protesters Arrested At Google HQ | TechCrunch

A small group of pro-net neutrality activists who had set up a protest outside Google's Mountain View HQ -- dubbing themselves OccupyGoogle -- appear to have..

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Twitter Reportedly Experiments With New Way to Retweet

Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images Twitter is reportedly testing a “retweet with comment” button that would allow users more space to add their two cents.  The button showcases the original tweet in a card format and allows the person who chose to retweet it all 140 characters to add their comment, according to apparent screen grabs that have been shared on Twitter’s website. Who’s the Subject of Twitter’s First ‘Dronie’? Spy Tweets: CIA Joins Twitter, Facebook On a micro blogging platform where messages are limited to 140 characters, users who want to add their two cents to a retweet have to truncate…