Roundup: Real life Twitter, Intel’s EU fine, and more
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European Union could fine Intel up to $1.3 billion — or so some legal experts think.
AOL to spin out of Time Warner — And some executives are spinning out of AOL.
Track swine flu search trends — With this experimental tool from Google.
Satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe focusing on mid-May IPO — Reuters has more.
Google Maps’ data not as clean as interface suggests — Search Engine Land has this scathing take.
Amazon Web Services offers education grants — More on the group’s blog.
Game Developer magazine survey says average developer makes $79,000 — More on the study, here.
Microsoft uses Wet Paint to build media-rich sites — More here.
Peter Thiel’s views on seasteading, and much more — Here.
If you said tweets in real life — College Humor explores the concept in this hilarious video.
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About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.