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• ​CIO upfront: Quo vadis Twitter?

  So the rumours are out, Twitter is up for sale – and I see it with a wary eye, my most used social network may change owners… time to muse about it.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, July 13

  Nintendo president Iwata dies...China tops supercomputer ranking again...Facebook wants to put music videos in your feed...and more tech news.

• FCC's Wheeler defends net neutrality rules, discounts investment fears

  Predictions from net neutrality opponents that regulations would choke off broadband investment haven't come true, with several service providers announcing expansions in the four months since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed new rules, the agency's chairman says.

• Consumer groups dance on the grave of Comcast-TW deal

  Consumer groups are cheering the news that Comcast abandoned its proposed US$45 billion acquisition of fellow cable and broadband provider Time Warner Cable, saying it's good for customers and demonstrates the power of Internet activism.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, April 24

  Comcast-Time Warner merger looks to be falling apart...Amazon finally discloses cloud numbers...Microsoft services make up for weak PC market...and more tech news.

• Comcast said to abandon Time Warner merger plan

  Comcast has abandoned plans to merge with Time Warner Cable, according to a Bloomberg News report on Thursday.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, April 23

  Facebook's mobile traffic dominates...Google, Box step up enterprise tools...Russian malware targeted the White House...and more tech news.

• FCC passes net neutrality rules, reclassifies broadband as utility

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve new net neutrality rules by reclassifying broadband as a regulated public utility, over the objections of the commission's Republican members and large broadband providers.

• FCC redefines advanced broadband as 25 Mbps, Republicans blow a gasket

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has redefined advanced broadband as having 25Mbps download speeds, up from 4Mbps, giving the agency new authority to pass rules to encourage deployment across the country.

• Google, Facebook, Apple spent record amounts on lobbying in 2014

  The tech industry's most influential companies spent record amounts of money on federal lobbying in 2014 despite a general drop in lobbying by most tech companies. The spending was often directed at areas away from the central business of technology, and it indicates how diverse and powerful major tech companies are becoming.

• With Comcast's Ethernet @Home, your holiday break could be even more like work

  Work follows millions of people home every night, and Comcast Business wants to take that bittersweet reality to another level.

• Online video moguls team up to set standards, meet growing demand

  Some of the most powerful companies in video networks and delivery plan to define an open architecture for streaming video as part of a new alliance that includes Cisco Systems, Comcast, Ustream and Yahoo, but not Netflix or YouTube.

• OpenStack users: We need more experienced staff

  Paradoxically for a platform intended to automate cloud service deployment, a major obstacle to wider adoption of OpenStack is a lack of qualified staff, speakers and attendees at the OpenStack Summit in Paris said Monday.

• Study blames backbone business deals for broadband congestion

  Business relationships between major broadband providers and Internet backbone providers appear to be the cause of major drags on performance from early 2013 to early this year, according to a new study from a think tank advocating for strong net neutrality rules.

• Advocacy groups accused of obscuring corporate ties in net neutrality debate

  A spate of recent news stories have revealed that a wide variety of lobby groups have financial ties to broadband carriers and trade associations, accusing them of faking grassroots opposition to strong net neutrality rules.