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Submission + - Twitter seeking to go public (thenextweb.com)

Submitted by awarrenfells on Thursday September 12, 2013 @05:22PM

awarrenfells writes: While Dell Inc. is announcing its desire to go private, Twitter seems to be heading in the opposite direction with its recent tweet that it seeks to go public.

Submission + - Michael Dell to buy Dell Inc. (reuters.com)

Submitted by awarrenfells on Thursday September 12, 2013 @11:07AM

awarrenfells writes: After a shareholder vote, Michael Dell is expected to buy out and take Dell Inc. private. This move comes in the wake of plans to move Dell into position as an enterprise computing provider, but some analysts state this move may have come too late, much of the target market being taken by IBM and HP already.

Submission + - Twitter "twitpocalypse" affects Mac, iPhon (macworld.com)

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awarrenfells

on Saturday June 13, 2009 @05:32PM

awarrenfells writes: "The surging popularity of the Twitter messaging service has broken at least one Twitter client application and affected another as a part of what is being called "the Twitpocalypse."

Excerpt: On Friday evening, the number of tweets exceeded 2,147,483,6471. While that doesn't seem like a round number, it's the largest number that can be stored as the data type known as a "signed integer." Once that number was exceeded, some versions of some Twitter client apps could break in a fashion similar to what was expected during the Y2K "millennium bug" era"

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