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• Twitter moving into its own data center

  Twitter hopes to improve the reliability of its service by moving into its own, custom-built data center later this year, the company said on Wednesday.

• Google to rev up Chrome release schedule

  Google on Thursday said it will pick up Chrome's release pace by issuing a new version of the browser about every six weeks. According to Anthony Laforge, a Chrome program manager, the new schedule will put a a new "stable" version of the browser in users' hands roughly twice often as in the past. The picked-up pace will debut over the next few months.

• Twitter battles fail whale with new data center

  Tired of getting a fail whale when you try to tweet or simply try to log onto Twitter ?

• For Facebook, the first half billion were easy

  Facebook may have secured its place at the top of the world's list of social networking sites with yesterday's announcement that it passed the 500-million user mark. But industry watchers think that signing up the next 500 million Facebook users may be a lot harder.

• Drupal Gardens getting ready to bloom

  Drupal Gardens, the planned cloud version of the open source Drupal content management system, went into a public beta stage Thursday, thus making it widely available for tryouts , said Drupal founder Dries Buytaert.

• AOL offers new mobile portal, app

  AOL Thursday opened a new smartphone portal and introduced an application that will initially be exclusive to Android.

• Google, IBM named top cloud tech providers

  Google and IBM came out on top as the leading cloud computing vendors in a survey of developers revealed this week by Evans Data.

• Flipboard launches iPad app to adulation, rush of users

  Flipboard, a new iPad application that presents the news links in a user's Twitter and Facebook media streams in the style of a magazine, launched to immediate adulation on Wednesday but the rush of users meant a few glitches for early adopters.

• Google search share falls again in China

  The fallout from Google's decision to stop censoring its search results in China has brought a continued decline in the company's search business, according to a research firm.

• Twitter's tech problems take a toll on developers

  The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications built for the microblogging service.

• Birst offers concurrent user pricing for BI

  On-demand BI vendor Birst announced Tuesday that it is now offering the option of concurrent user pricing, a licensing model few BI providers use because it can limit the amount of money they make compared to typical "named user" pricing.

• AT&T adds mobile services for business, government users

  AT&T Tuesday announced that it's offering three new mobile services, including text messaging and encrypted mobile voice products, aimed at business and government users.

• Facebook user satisfaction 'abysmal'

  While Facebook is expected to announce this week that it's grabbed its 500 millionth user, a new study shows that not everyone is so happy with the social networking site.

• Yahoo profit up, but revenue falls short of forecasts

  Yahoo's second-quarter revenue was US$1.60 billion, coming in on the low end of the company's expectations and falling short of analyst predictions.

• Yahoo profit up, but revenue falls short of forecasts

  Yahoo's second-quarter revenue was $US1.60 billion, coming in on the low end of the company's expectations and falling short of analyst predictions.