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Weekly Wrap-up: Twitter’s Firehose, Facebook’s “Not Email” Announcement, Demand for Android Skills Up 710% And More…

This was a good week to be an Android developer, a bad week to be a woman on Facebook, and – if you had $360,000 on hand – your first chance to buy up 50% of the Twitter firehose. (As of right now it’s flowing at about 1,000 Tweets every second.) In our coverage of other top Internet trends, get ready for some location-based cola wars; Sarah Perez reported on how 4G may cost more for Verizon’s mobile customers; and real-time push notifications came to Twitter. Read on for more of this week’s top stories.

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