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  • Horizons Twitter's redesign: More photos for profile pages, and a new iPad app

    Twitter unveiled its new look, which puts a heavy emphasis on photos and videos and nudges profile pages closer to a Facebook-like design. Mobile Twitter apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices also support the new photo-centric approach.

  • Twitter taking on reality TV?

    Anonymous sources told Adweek that Twitter has been meeting with reality television producers and executives to showcase an "original video series" similar to "The Hills" and "The Real World."

  • Why Google and Twitter didn't join the SOPA blackout

    Wikipedia, Reddit, and other sites are blacked out in protest of the SOPA anti-piracy bills. Why didn't Google and Twitter join the blackout?

  • Twitter introduces new look, and new HQ

    Twitter has a fresh new look, which extends to its website, its iOS and Android apps, and TweetDeck. Twitter is planning a physical as well as virtual expansion: a cavernous new headquarters with room for more than four times its current staff.

  • Twitter: Active user numbers up, more ads on the horizon

    Twitter has seen a surge in the number of active users, Twitter exec Dick Costolo said on Thursday.

  • Google's 16 biggest purchases, and how they worked out

    Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola will be its biggest acquisition ever -- more than four times the size of DoubleClick, the previous leader. But over the last decade, Google has been one of the biggest -- and most successful -- acquirers in the tech industry, and owes a lot of its success to these smart buys. Its core search advertising platform and most of its biggest new businesses, including Android, YouTube, and display advertising, all come from other companies. Join us as we count down Google's top 16 acquisitions by value and show what happened to them.

  • Steve Jobs joins high-tech meeting with Obama

    Steve Jobs was one of 12 tech-industry leaders to talk with Obama about spurring US innovation. Steve Jobs has been the focus of rumors of ill-health.

  • Brace yourself: The 2.0's are coming!

    The Web 2.0's, that is. Here's the rundown on all the social media IPOs in the works. Exciting times to be in the market.

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Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

 
 
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