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The streets of Caracas are crammed with three times as many cars as they can handle. And why not? Gas is cheaper in Venezuela than anywhere else on Earth. The consequence, of course, is nasty traffic, made only worse by potholes, police checkpoints and other impediments to smooth vehicular...

It's no secret that Twitter still hasn't found a way to do much with money other than spend it. The company is pulling back on its plan not to run ads on the site, and continues to say that paid corporate accounts will likely be its ultimate revenue source. While the white-hot microblogging...

Unless you've been living in a cave, you've heard of Twitter. What you probably haven't heard is how the company plans to make money -- not even reporters covering the company have heard an coherent explanation for that. But now, with the completion of two deals, Twitter looks poised to see the...

Robin Sloan, a San Francisco-based writer and technologist, is pretty well known in media circles as the former head of Current TV's internet operation. But Sloan's fame may rise to another level now that he has authored what some are calling a milestone in internet history: the five billionth...

It was as if the news media had enough and just couldn't take it anymore. After weeks of grinding coverage of the health care debate, bad news from Afghanistan and the bizarre antics of various political leaders, much of the mainstream news media seemed to come unhinged on Thursday afternoon in a...

While Twitter might not be your first place to turn for a job, it's actually a really great place to go looking for work. Thanks to a new Twibbon, a ribbon you put on your Twitter avatar, you can make it incredibly clear to prospective employers that you're in the market. By logging in to the...

The National Basketball Association is the latest professional sports league to try and figure out what, if anything, it needs to do about Twitter. NBA officials "plan on having some sort of guidance" about the wildy popular micro-blogging site before next month's start of the season, according to...

There's a report out from Nielsen this week saying teens don't use Twitter, which follows a recent report from Morgan Stanley that made the same point. To counter the point, I say flatly, using my best inner teen voice: Whatever. Other inner teen-voice reactions: So what? Who cares? Saying teens...

It may be reducing us all to a bunch of semi-literate, hashtag-spewing teenagers, but Twitter's influence on the English language can't be ignored, in the view of the Associated Press. The microblogging service has reached a new milestone, earning a promotion from noun to verb in the new edition of...

It's a Twitter retreat, take two: Twitter will be doing maintenance again on its site Wednesday, and the Tweets will temporarily cease. Proving that repairmen never show up when expected, even on the Web, Twitter rescheduled its repairs from Monday morning to Wednesday at 3 pm (Eastern Daylight...