There's no need to start refreshing the Twitter Blog every five seconds; it doesn't sound like any pens are poised over paper at the moment. However, Biz Stone has made some statements concerning acquisitions that point to more of them taking place in the future.
Google TV Ads is about to become a significantly more powerful marketing system. A new pact with TiVo will allow Google to gather (and then pass on) very precise data about which commercials are being viewed, and even (to a lesser degree) who is doing the watching.
Google's Android is growing like a weed. Perhaps even a weed that's been fertilized and watered as if it was a desirable flower. A new report from AdMob lays out some impressive usage statistics and hints that there's much more to come.
Here are two eye-opening stats of a somewhat broad-spectrum nature: "Worldwide requests from Android devices increased 5.8 times since April 2009." Also, "In the US, Android has 20% share of smartphone traffic, up from 7% six months before . . ."
eBay suffered a significant malfunction this weekend as an unspecified "technical issue" affected users' ability to both search and browse listings for most of Saturday. Now, the site's been restored to working order, but a lot of sellers remain extremely unhappy.
The "virtual fifth label" is now friends with MySpace. Merlin, an organization that represents independent music companies, is supposed to have signed a deal with the social network that should nicely complement MySpace's existing partnerships with EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner.
uSocial is a controversial advertising company that specializes in social media. For a fee, it promises to get stories on the front page of Digg, direct followers to a Twitter account, and/or find someone Facebook fans (among other things). But Facebook's put at least a temporary stop to the sale of friends.
Sometimes you just have to know when to call it quits, and a new report indicates that Bebo has decided now's the time to cut its losses in Australia. Bebo is supposed to end its operations in the country before the end of the year.
It looks like the eBay-Skype spectacle has finally come to a close. Despite all of the arguments (legal and otherwise) that cropped up at one point or another, representatives of both companies announced last night that the sale of Skype to an investor group is complete.
Fortune 100 companies don't quite know what to do with Twitter, according to a new report. Public relations firm Weber Shandwick instead painted a picture of big corporations just staking out their territory and then occasionally issuing the 140-character equivalents of press releases.
Most companies try to improve themselves over time. Twitter, unfortunately, hasn't managed to do so. A downtime report from CheckMySite indicates that Twitter's still suffering problems on a regular basis, and that it hasn't done well at all in comparison to Facebook and MySpace.
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