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21 Feb 2010 21:40

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U.S.: Obama wants to slap health insurers over unfair rate increases

  • action Anthem Blue Cross of California is discussing boosting its premiums by 39%, citing a bad economy and (we think) contempt for its customers. People get pissed off.
  • reaction Obama wants to push a new piece into the health care bill giving the government more oversight of premium increases. Who’s singing an anthem now, Anthem? source

21 Aug 2009 14:45

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Tech: Twitter finally has a plan to make money. Good for them!

  • Twitter will still be free for everybody and we’ll still tell them to go crazy with it. But we’ve identified a selection of things that businesses say are helping to make them more profit.
  • Twitter co-founder Biz Stone • Discussing how the company plans to actually make money with their overhyped, heavily-used service. The two ideas being presented: First, they plan to roll out premium accounts with analytics for corporate users. Secondly, they plan to create a commercial API for business-class interfaces. Note that the word “advertising” wasn’t used. • source