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...Update: Not so fast, Microsoft. A few hours after Bing announced its Twitter deal, Google announced one of its own. The second Twitter deal of the day doesn't quite erase Bing's advantage. Bing's Twitter search is already live, whereas Google's Social Search, which was previewed at Web 2.0, is a few weeks away from launch. But it does change the day's big-picture winner. That would now be Twitter. Neither Microsoft nor Google revealed the terms of their Twitter deals, but the critical point is that there were terms. For Twitter, and more importantly...
What this means for Twitter, which has been answering questions about possible revenue streams almost since its founding, is still unknown. Qi Lu refused to announce any terms of the deal, and Twitter CEO Evan Williams was similarly mum. But for Microsoft, it's another territorial advance in what's shaping up to be a very interesting search...
...Tweet Deal: Lamont Lib Café opens today @3pm. Free reusable coffee mug and drink of your choice to the first 10 who mention this tweet...
...this point, he negotiated a deal with his superiors, in which he was allowed to leave the base from 3 p.m. to midnight to attend squash National Training...
...college is getting more expensive. Tuition and fees for the 2009-10 school year at a private, four-year college or university now averages $26,273, a 4.4% increase from last year. Throw in room and board and you're up to $35,636. Public schools are a better deal, of course, but their price tag is growing even faster - up 6% or more. All this in a year where the cost of most everything else (as measured by the Consumer Price Index) actually fell. There is a silver lining: increased aid and tax benefits mean out-of-pocket costs...