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Drew Carey Bids $25,000 for @Drew Twitter Name

Drew Carey Bids $25,000 for @Drew Twitter Name

The Price is Right host Drew Carey placed a bid for $25K, far in excess of the $10K minimum bid.

 

States give mixed signals on texting and driving

States give mixed signals on texting and driving

Many states have laws against texting while driving. But many also are more than happy to tweet you about the traffic conditions.

 

The Cost Of FriendFeed: Roughly $50 Million In Cash And Stock

Everyone is obviously talking about the Facebook/FriendFeed deal, but everyone wants to know one key detail: How much did Facebook pay?

 

Twitter hit by denial of service attack

Twitter hit by denial of service attack

The popular social networking site Twitter has been hit by a denial of service attack, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. In an e-mail to CNN.com, Stone said this morning's attack is not related to a recent incident in which a hacker stole internal documents from the site. Twitter's site went down around 9:30 a.m. ET.

 

Fined Chargers Star Still Twittering

A star player who was fined thousands of dollars for a post about the quality of training-camp foods is talking about his tweet.

Antonio Cromartie was fined $2,500 by the San Diego Chargers after a post last Friday about the fare the Chargers were serving.

 

TweetBlocker: Easily Delete Spammers From Your Twitter Stream

It's no secret that Twitter has become a preferred playground for spammers. Hashrocket's TweetBlocker sets out to change this by giving users a simple tool to easily identify spammers in the group of users they are following. TweetBlocker automatically identifies the spammers in your follow list and lets you easily unfollow and block them right from the TweetBlocker dashboard.

 

Twitter's Worst Nightmare: Facebook

Twitter's Worst Nightmare: Facebook

The microblogging service fears the social network could put it out of business.

 

Twitter calls lawyer over hacking

Twitter calls lawyer over hacking

Twitter seeks legal advice after hundreds of documents were hacked and a number of blogs publish some of the stolen material.

 

BingTweets: Microsoft Launches a Twitter Search Engine

BingTweets: Microsoft Launches a Twitter Search Engine

Microsoft, in cooperation with Federated Media and Twitter, launched its own full-blown Twitter search engine today. BingTweets mashes up real-time Twitter search with results from Bing, Microsoft's new and increasingly popular search engine.

 

Twitter Expanding Executive Team: Hires General Counsel From Google, Looking For CFO

Twitter has hired Alexander Macgillivray, Google's associate general counsel for Product and IP, as their new General Counsel, we've confirmed.

 

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