Entries tagged "Twitter Inc."

Twitter CEO confirms 'significant' round

Twitter CEO Evan Williams confirmed the company closed a significant round of VC funding. The round is reported to be $100 million with a $1 billion valuation for the fast-growing startup.

Deal Stocks: UN, SLE, C, BCS, ING, HBC, CBY, RIMM

A look at the news moving deal-related stocks on Friday including Unilever, Sara Lee, Citigroup, ING, Cadbury, RIMM and Twitter.

Twitter latest to go local, following M&A flurry

This has been the summer of location. AOL bought two hyper-local services, and MSNBC bought one. Now Twitter says it will add location detection to its popular service.

Twitter, take a self-defense class from Google

Google survived Thursday's denial-of-service attack relatively unscathed. Facebook suffered some wounds. But Twitter was down for the count, underscoring the immaturity and vulnerability of its infrastructure.

Facebook, Twitter attack aimed at Georgian blogger

A Georgian blogger was the target of the denial-of-service attack that brought Twitter down and led to outages at other social networking sites Thursday, says an executive at Facebook, whose service was affected.

Biz Stone comments on Twitter TV show

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone blogs Monday night on how the Web is abuzz with talk of a Twitter TV show, confirming a 'simple agreement' with Brillstein and Reveille.

Oprah Effect: Twitter.com hosts 32M visitors

Bolstered by star treatment from Oprah Winfrey and others, Twitter's Web site snagged 32 million visitors last month. Will the Oprah Effect last? Thursday she has Skype on her show.

Twitter = telephone, TV, PC, says Ashton Kutcher

'Right now the word revolution is spelled with 140 characters,' says actor and avid tweeter Ashton Kutcher about Twitter in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.

Apple trying to buy Twitter?

Last month the blogosphere had Google trying to snatch up Twitter. Now the digital water cooler says it's Apple doing the gobbling. Or, not so much.

Twitterati Eric Schmidt, Ashton Kutcher, Oprah

Ashton Kutcher beats CNN to 1 million followers on Twitter. No wonder Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants to partner with Twitter.

Facebook, Twitter would heat up the IPO market

With rumors swirling that Facebook turned down VC offers that value it between $2 billion and $4 billion, Fred Wilson says the company may as well go public.

No Facebook widget makers for Spark's Sabet

Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet talks about backing entrepreneurs with big ideas in Part 2 of our video conversation.

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