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Groupon and its compatriots in the much-hyped daily deals business were supposed to change the very nature of small-business advertising. Instead, it is the daily deal vendors that are racing to change as evidence mounts that their business model is fundamentally flawed.

Beyond talking about how fast it was growing, one of the hottest topics surrounding Twitter in 2009 was “how does it make money?” Perhaps that was the wrong question to be asking, though, because as it turns out, Twitter already makes money.

Has the popular microblogging service become a victim of its own success?

The software giant thinks it can make money in social networking the old-fashioned way - charging subscription fees.

Twitter...what is it good for? It turns out this little service is good for a whole lot of things, despite the loud objections of people who've never really ...