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Bing gets twitter in search results

Quick Take: Bing will now service real time tweets of individual in search results. Currently only the top “thousands” of twitter personalities will be indexed and covered.
Bing Blog: bringing a bit of twitter to bing

Yahoo to shut Maven Network

Quick Take: Yahoo is planning to shut Maven networks, which is its online advertising engine, acquired for $160 million last year. According to sources they are no longer servicing customers, and have fired most of employees in the unit. This seems to be part of Carol Bartz strategy to get rid of poorly performing units, [...]