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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he and his investment company are investing a combined $300 million into the microblogging site Twitter. Alwaleed said Monday the joint investment with his Kingdom Holding Company represents an interest in investing "in promising, high-growth businesses with a global impact."

The wolves of the tech-blogging world are circling around Research In Motion, calling them has-beens and tossing out rumors left and right as the once-proud BlackBerry brand fades into antiquity thanks to the rise of iPhone and Android. There are reasons to believe that we haven’t seen the last of RIM, most notably the probability that their weakness in the market today will make them a prime target for a buyout in the future.

For the last three weeks, iOS hacker pod2g has been tinkering away toward an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak and blogging about his progress. We've been keeping track as he succeeds in jailbreaking device after device, starting with a third generation iPod Touch. He's now freed almost every iOS 5-compatible device from the grips of Apple's restrictions. The only ones still underway are those with A5 processors like the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Aware of how eager the jailbreak community is to get their hands on an untethered solution, pod2g decided to share his work with the Chronic Dev...

If even your grandmother is on Twitter, you can bet terrorists are too. And that's what got the micro-blogging service in trouble this weekend, as an Israeli legal group threatened to sue Twitter for allowing terrorist organizations such as al-Shabaab and Hezbollah to use its services. "It has come to our attention that Twitter Inc. provides social media and associated services to such foreign terrorist organizations," wrote Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center. "Please be advised that (doing so) is illegal and will expose Twitter Inc. ...

Popular blogging platform Tumblr is out with a new feature Wednesday designed to help its growing user base send private messages to each other.

We're liveblogging Apple's announcement of the next iPad!

Twitter has acquired Posterous, the best blogging platform (imho). This is probably the beginning of an end for Posterous brand and service. In the coming weeks, it will provide its users some "specific instructions for exporting your content to other services." When it was launched in June 2008, Posterous' post-via-email feature [...]

Spanish music group Promusicae has sued Enrique Dans, professor at the IE Business School and a well-known blogger, after he claimed that the group is a copyright monopoly that violates antitrust laws. In addition to a public apology, the Spanish version of the RIAA is demanding 20,000 euros in damages. The professor, however, is prepared to fight the case until the bitter end and says he's protected by the right to freedom of expression.