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In this week’s EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the Yahoo rumor mill, the holiday shopping season on tech land and the Mumbai terror attacks and Twitter.

First the Yahoo rumor mill. The latest is that former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller is trying to raise a few billion to take Yahoo private.

Yeah right.

Search the Web on your iPhone with nothing more than your voice using Vlingo, a new app that also throws in voice-activated calling, maps search, and Twitter updates too.

Evan Williams talks at the Churchill Club about Twitter's new revenue model and new features.

In this video, Sumi Das and I talk about the broken down talks between Facebook and Twitter and where a relationship between the two might be in the future.

Both need to develop solid revenue models as they grow, which means this round may have simply been a victim of bad timing.

Twitter spurns Facebook's takeover effort but hires a new software engineer from Values of n.

Talks between Facebook and Twitter have broken down, Kara Swisher reports in a post on the Boomtown blog today, and - on the surface - it looks like the dividing issue was money.

(Isn’t it always?) Facebook was offering $500 million in Facebook stock based on what what Twitter considered to be an inflated valuation.

President-elect Barack Obama successfully campaigned for the nation’s highest office via Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

His new administration is prying a Blackberry from his hands but he’s already talking about a laptop in the West Wing.

The microblogging site could easily make money. Here are a raft of suggestions.

He apparently referenced this post about his confrontation with Joe the Plumber.

But that’s not the cool part.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s incredibly exciting to be mentioned by such a high profile media outlet, but I’m more excited about how I found out about it.

Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle decides to mess with everyone's head by suggesting Twitter is "just a feature" and perhaps Facebook could consider acquiring it.