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<title><![CDATA[Japan earthquake stalls Nissan electric car production]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nissan has halted vehicle production at its factories in Japan following an earthquake off the country&amp;'s northeast coast that spawned a tsunami and caused widespread damage.The company&amp;'s electric vehicle, the Leaf, is the first full-scale electric production car from a major automaker sold in the United States. But Nissan has typically failed to meet deadlines to get the car to market and into the hands of hungry consumers.That was supposed to change when Nissan announced that its Japanese factory responsible for making the five-seat family hatchback was set to double production over the next month.One in every six cars coming off Nissana4a4s Oppama production line was a Leaf. Nissan promised every third car would be a Leaf by the end of March.Nissan is no stranger to setbacks when it comes to the Leaf. The company was slow to begin production, using existing factories to manufacture it. The 2011 Leaf is produced alongside non-electriccars such as the 2011 Juke and the 2011 Cube. This method of production enables new cars to be gradually phased in, without disrupting the plant production schedule. But while there are over 20,000 reservations in the U.S. for the Leaf, only 10 cars were delivered in December. There were 173 Leaf orders filled in January and 67 Leaf vehicles delivered in February.The delays have been caused in part by the success of the Leaf in its native Japan, where generous government subsidies and nationwide charging infrastructure have driven an estimated 95 percent of Oppamaa4a4s Leaf output to domestic customers. Nissanwas on track to ship an estimated 10,000 units by the end of March this year. Nissan also reported that 2,300 completed vehicles were damaged in the wake of the tsunami following the earthquake, but wouldn&amp;'t indicate how many of them were electric vehicles.Japan was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake. The earthquake rocked the northeastern portion of the coast and generated a tsunami warning across the country. The quake was the strongest to hit Japan in at least a century and generated a tsunami as high as 33 feet that flooded northern towns.Next Story: Guild creator Felicia Day: Web shows should aim carefully Previous Story: HP will install both Windows and WebOS on same desktops in futurePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: electric cars, Japan, Japan quake, japanese earthquake, Leaf, Nissan LeafCompanies: Nissan          Tags: electric cars, Japan, Japan quake, japanese earthquake, Leaf, Nissan LeafCompanies: NissanMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter says users send 1 billion tweets per week]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Five years after the very first tweet, Twitter celebrated its (almost) birthday by sharing some numbers about the microblogging service&amp;'s still-impressive growth.The big number is the one in the headline: Twitter says its users now send one billion tweets in the space of one week. In contrast, it took the company three years, two months, and one day after Twitter creator Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet (on March 21, 2006) to reach its first billion tweets. And it seems like the rate is accelerating &amp;8212' the company previously said its users sent 25 billion tweets in all of 2010.You can see the full list of stats at the Twitter blog post, but here are a few other highlights:Beyond the numbers, Dorsey has been tweeting about his memories of the company&amp;'s early days.Next Story: Verizon, AT&amp;038'T, Sprint offer free calls and texts to Japan Previous Story: Solar power shines amid Japan&amp;'s nuclear woesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: TwitterPeople: Jack Dorsey          Companies: TwitterPeople: Jack DorseyAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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