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- Who Won The 6,000+ Nortel Patents? Apple, RIM, Microsoft — Everyone But Google
- Twitter Reaches 200 Million Tweets A Day, But How Many Come From Bots?
| Who Won The 6,000+ Nortel Patents? Apple, RIM, Microsoft — Everyone But Google | Top |
| When Google first made the “stalking-horse” bid on the Nortel patent portfolio in early April, it was all but assumed that they would push hard and win the rights to the patents. They were hardly the only bidder — RIM and Apple were definitely involved — but still, after the DoJ quickly cleared them to bid, it seemed to many (including many at Google) that they would prevail. Not so. Instead, Nortel has announced this evening that a consortium has won the bidding at a cash price of $4.5 billion. So who is in this consortium? Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony, and others — essentially, it’s everyone but Google, it seems. Ouch. This means that over 6,000 patents will now be in the hands of these winners. And that sort of sucks for Google because losing the bidding means that they still control less than 1,000 patents. And that in turn means lawsuits. As in, Google is going to keep getting sued because they are vulnerable. That sucks, but it’s the way it’s going to be. Well, provided the courts approve the bidding results. The deal is still subject to review by the courts in the U.S. and Canada. And given the companies that “won”, it seems likely that a review will take place. The Microsoft and Apple winnings are likely to be the most scrutinized, as the two of them stand to gain the most from the auction results. Google has yet to give a statement on the matter, but you can bet they will lobby against the auction results. Nortel hopes to close the process by Q3 2011. Good luck. | |
| Twitter Reaches 200 Million Tweets A Day, But How Many Come From Bots? | Top |
| Twitter just crossed another huge milestone. People are now sending 200 million tweets per day across the service. This is up from 65 million tweets per day a year ago, or about 200 percent growth in a year. Last March, Twitter reported 140 million tweets per day last March. Way back in January, 2009 people were only sending 2 million tweets per day. Well, “people” is perhaps a generous term. Twitter is filled with automated bots Tweeting out, as well as feeds from publishers. It is not clear how many of those 200 million Tweets a day are automated versus individually hand-crafted. And a small percentage of power users (maybe 20,000 total) reportedly account for half of all Tweets. But other data suggests that Twitter’s audience keeps on growing. ComScore estimates that Twitter.com alone attracted 139 million unique visitors worldwide in May, 2011, a 54 percent annual increase. On a worldwide basis, Twitter is bigger than MySpace. In the U.S., however, traffic is up only 12.5 percent to Twitter.com, which attracted an estimated 27 million unique visitors in May, 2011. CrunchBase Information Twitter Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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