| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | An Offer From Amazon To Its Most Bitter Rivals
| | | Amazon is going to the people who dislike and fear it the most — independent bookstore owners — and offering to work together to fulfill the needs and desires of their customers. (New York Times)
Why This Is Important: Most booksellers will undoubtedly be hostile to the plan, but do they have much of a choice in this e-reader world?
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| | #2 | The Hidden Technology That Makes Twitter Huge
| | | Consider the tweet. It's short—140 characters and done—but hardly simple. If you open one up and look inside, you'll see a remarkable clockwork, with 31 publicly documented data fields. Why do these tweets, typically born of a stray impulse, need to carry all this data with them? (Businessweek)
Why This Is Important: Tweets serve as windows into consumers' habits, and it won't be much longer before advertisers figure out better way to capitalize on them.
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| | #3 | Why Apple's New Sapphire Manufacturing Agreement Is A Big Deal
| | | Earlier this week, Apple announced a multiyear alliance with GT Advanced Technologies that will see the company manufacturing sapphire material at a new Apple facility in Mesa, Ariz. With prepayments of approximately $578 million to GT, this is a significant deal for both companies — perhaps even more so than originally thought. (AllThingsD)
Why This Is Important: This project with Apple will be GT's biggest source of revenue and a tremendous boost to it as well.
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"A floating data center? A wild party boat? A barge housing the last remaining dinosaur? Sadly, none of the above. Although it's still early days and things may change, we're exploring using the barge as an interactive space where people can learn about new technology," said Google, referring to the two large barges it owns that are located off each coast of the United States.
| | | Blog Post of The Day | How Biz Stone's Biggest Mistake Spawned Twitter
By Josh Constine
"The first, second, third company I went to work for, somehow I screwed them all up. Doing startups is all about making mistakes," Biz Stone nervously admitted onstage at the New Context Conference in San Francisco. He'd just confessed that he didn't prepare anything so will talk about his biggest screw-ups, including one that could earn him many millions of dollars when Twitter IPOs. More » |
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