Twitter Goes for Broke, if Broke Means “A Lot of Money”: New Funding Round at $1 Billion Valuation

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

Is Twitter a billion-dollar company? It is now, according to its investors. People familiar with the company tell me it has raised around $50 million in a funding round that values the start-up, which has no real revenue to speak of, at about $1 billion…

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Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

ast growing startup Twitter will soon be joining a select group of startups with private venture round valuations of $1 billion, we’ve heard from multiple sources. CEO Evan Williams disclosed the round to employees at a recent all hands meeting…

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YouTube Races to Be #1 … on Facebook

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

First we had the race to 1 million followers on Twitter () (let the history books show that Ashton won). But did you know that a similar battle is brewing over the most Facebook fans? YouTube thinks they can take the title, and to make things more interesting they’re also allowing their Facebook fans to [...]

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18 Million Twitter Users by End of 2009

Sep 14, 2009 No Comments by admin

Twitter’s traffic has grown tremendously in the past year, but how many people are actively using the service versus casually passing by? According to the latest research from eMarketer, that number will be at around 18 million by the end of 2009…

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Twitter Confirms It: Ellen DeGeneres a Good Choice for Idol

Sep 12, 2009 No Comments by admin

But something unexpected has changed all that. Yesterday FOX confirmed that popular Twitterer (@TheEllenShow) and daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres would be the new American Idol judge. And according to your Twitter (Twitter) reactions, it’s pure genius…

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Facebook Lite versus Facebook – how do they differ?

Sep 11, 2009 No Comments

Facebook today rolled out a very spare version of itself in the United States called Facebook Lite. The original goal of Facebook Lite was to help the social network expand in developing countries where users unfamiliar with Facebook might want a simpler interface, or one that would load faster on a slower Internet connection…

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Facebook Lite Goes Live – More Twitter Imitation

Sep 10, 2009 No Comments

A month ago we reported that Facebook was beta testing a ‘lite’ version of its popular social networking site. http://lite.facebook.com has just become available to U.S. users. The lite version offers users a “faster, simpler version of Facebook.” Judging from what we have seen so far, Facebook Lite turns Facebook into a very Twitter-like experience. [...]

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Twitter Changes TOS, Opens the Door for Ads

Sep 10, 2009 No Comments

With Twitter growing so dramatically and in so many directions over the last few months, it’s probably no surprise that they have decided to expand their Terms of Service – the core rules that govern the use of Twitter. The company announced the changes today in a detailed blog post…

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BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Sep 10, 2009 1 Comment

One of Twitter’s strongest features is the @reply, where you can direct a message to someone else on Twitter by typing @ and then their username. Facebook, which is trying to emulate some of Twitter’s best features, doesn’t have anything similar in the News Feed. In short, it’s not easy to have a public conversation…

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Salesforce for Twitter Launches

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments

Today enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com announced the next evolution of its web based CRM product, Service Cloud 2. With Service Cloud 2, Salesforce.com is focusing on integrating social media into companies existing customized CRM systems…

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Facebook ‘enhances intelligence’ but Twitter ‘diminishes it’, claims psychologist

Sep 07, 2009 No Comments

Playing video war games and solving Sudoku may have the same effect as keeping up to date with Facebook, according to Dr Tracy Alloway. But text messaging, micro-blogging on ”Twitter” and watching YouTube were all likely to weaken ”working memory”…

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