BizJournals Portfolio
Feb 27 2009 11:45am EDT

First Bytes: Sony, Twitter, Bloomberg, Google Books

Sony shakeup: CEO takes over as president, while electronics and games division are streamlined. [Bloomberg].

Meanwhile, the Onion's Youtube lampoons of Sony products gets attention at Slate's Big Money. [The Big Money]

Unburden your dark soul with anonymous confessions on Secret Tweet. (Like Post Secret for people who don't do that whole stamps and paper thing.) [Bits Blog]

As Wall Street firms cut analysts who know how to use antediluvian Bloomberg data terminals, terminal sales drop. [Business Insider]

Crowd-sourcing Mexican border patrol. [NPR

Google Books pays authors a paltry $60 per title in copyright suit settlement [Valleywag].

by Alexandra Fenwick


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