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Mumbai at War: Twitter Appears Better, Safer Than CNN

Nov 27th, 2008

Socked and angry! Over ten hours ago terrorists attacked Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, killing at least 80 civilians, police officers and many people including US citizens are being taken hostage. Mumbai is at war! Interestingly, the first news came to the world was not from CNN or from any other news agency but from Twitter's magical 140-character text messages. TechCrunch, leading tech blog, could capture picture of the first news updated on Twitter here. "Forget CNN, which so far has ...




Developer Gets Rich with iPhone Game

Nov 19th, 2008

[CNN] - Demeter, a former ATM software designer, created an iPhone game called "Trism" in time and pitched it to Apple last spring. Priced at $5, "Trism" earned Demeter $250,000 in profits the first two months. He can now quit his bank job and has launched a company, Demiforce, to develop more electronic games with a salaried staff, five games in development including a spinoff to "Trism" named "Trismology."