Yesterday, Six Apart announced to acquire micro-blogging startup Pownce and to shut down Pownce's service in two weeks. Leah Culver and Mike Malone, Pownce's main developers, will join Six Apart's team on similar roles. Backing by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, Pownce is considered the second-best-known micro-blogging service around after Twitter. Its service even offers more features than Twitter that allows user to share not only short text messages but also photos, video and mp3. However, Pownce's traffic never took ...

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 ...

Canada is now the second country Twitter will no longer supports outbound SMS alerts (the first is UK where outbound SMS was stopped in August, 2008) citing changes to the company's billing and costs that are doubling every month: Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us into a difficult situation with our Canadian SMS service. We can't afford to support this service given our current arrangement with our providers (where costs have been doubling for the past several months.) Canadian however ...