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• Google Integrates Twitter With Its Friend Connect

  PaidContent - 2009-12-03

  Say this for Google: The company does not like to have its rivals grab all the attention. Less than a day after Facebook announced it would link up Facebook Connect across Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) properties, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced the integration of its own identity platform with Twitter. People...

  Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Companies, Google, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• StockTwits Raises $3 Million In Second Round

  PaidContent - 2009-12-02

  Only seven months after raising $800,000 in a first round, StockTwits—which lets investors track conversations about stocks on Twitter—- has brought in another $3 million in funding. The round was led by Foundry Group; existing investor True Ventures also participated. Since May, when it announced its first round, StockTwits...

  Tags: Round, StockTwits, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Twitter's Stone: No Sale But IPO, Alternatives Are Possible

  PaidContent - 2009-11-23

  Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, the latest stop on a talky tour of the...

  Tags: Advertisement, Twitter Inc., IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Advertising, Money, Social Media, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK, Staci D. Kramer

• ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Gets A Twitter Time Out, Sort Of

  PaidContent - 2009-11-21

  Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest “repeat...

  Tags: ESPN, Twitter Inc., Bill Simmons, Quality, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Online News, TV, Cable & Telecom, Social Media, Companies, Disney, Twitter, Staci D. Kramer

• Twitter Premium Accounts Due By Year's End

  PaidContent - 2009-11-19

  So how’s Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday…“Supposing I was to say to someone: ‘you can have my Twitter identity for...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., Financial Planning, Business Structures, Finance, Companies, Twitter, Patrick Smith

• First Look: Zune, Twitter, Facebook And Last.fm On Xbox

  PaidContent - 2009-11-18

  Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 console on Tuesday, along with the first European foray for its Zune brand see earlier reports from Tameka and I. Here are my initial explorations with each new service…Last.fm...

  Tags: Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Gaming, Music, Social Media, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Microsoft, xBox, Twitter, Robert Andrews

• Industry Moves Roundup: Twitter; Discovery; CBS Interactive

  PaidContent - 2009-11-11

  —Twitter: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava—whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed systems—is joining the microblogging service in an unspecified role, Louis Gray reports. He confirms the move—on Twitter.—Discovery Communications: Todd Zander has been promoted to vice president of digital media distribution, tasked with expanding the...

  Tags: Davenport Co., Twitter Inc., Industry, CBS Interactive Inc., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Inside Word: In Defense Of Ads In Twitter

  PaidContent - 2009-11-06

  The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Mark SusterPosition: Partner, GRP PartnersBlog name: Both Sides Of The Table, which features startup adviceBackstory: No one knows what percentage of Tweeters if any would...

  Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Word, Twitter Inc., Advertising, Features, Inside Word, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Twitter Upgrades Its Search Engine

  PaidContent - 2009-11-06

  After months of saying that improvements were coming to its search engine, Twitter has announced a critical upgrade. In a blog post, Twitter says it has started an experiment that will “show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.” No details on how...

  Tags: Search Engine, Twitter Inc., Search, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Microblogging Platform StatusNet Gets $850,000

  PaidContent - 2009-10-29

  Canadian microblogging startup StatusNet has raised $875,000 in a round of seed funding from Montreal Start Up, iNovia Capital and angel investor Oleg Tscheltzoff. StatusNet’s open source platform is used by organizations to set up their own Twitter-like sites, which they can choose to make public or private. The...

  Tags: Platform, StatusNet, Sales Strategy, Open Source, Sales, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff