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• Russell Simmons' Global Grind Buys CelebrityTweets.com

  PaidContent - 2009-12-08

  Hip hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons’ Global Grind has purchased CelebrityTweet.com, which aggregates Tweets from celebrities, including Simmons himself. Global Grind features a wide array of coverage geared towards hip hop fans, including videos, a number of celebrity blogs and political news. In a release, it says it will continue...

  Tags: Russell Simmons, Global Grind, Entrepreneurship, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Communications, Corporate Law, Blogging, Management, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Internet, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, 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

• 5 Ways Twitter Can Save You Money

  BNET - 2009-09-21

  Here's how to find sweet tweets to shave the cost of everything from bialys to BMWs. Forget about Kutcher and Anderson Cooper. Twitter is now a source for saving big in 140 characters or less. Users share tips...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., MoneyWatch, Channel Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Search, Marketing, Finance, Twitter, Hashtag, Tweet, Retweet, Tweet Deck, JetBlue, Twitter Search, Dell, Hashtags.org, Groupon, Fat Wallet, Ben’s Bargains, Slick Deals, CheapTweet, CouponTweet, thesimpledollar.com, DigitalTrends.com, LocalTweeps.com, Tracking Twitter, Jeff Wuorio

• StockTwits Lands Nasdaq Sponsorship; Adds Real-Time Stock Quotes

  PaidContent - 2009-08-03

  StockTwits has proved that investors are interested in talking about stocks on Twitter—and the startup has now landed a high profile endorsement to its approach from the Nasdaq stock market. The exchange is turning to StockTwits for a new ad campaign. Its branding is being played up on StockTwits...

  Tags: Stock, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Twitter, StockTwits, Business Structures, Investment, Finance, Advertising, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff

• The Rise of the Twitter Hangers-On: CoTweet Raises $1.1 Million

  BNET - 2009-07-09

  Whenever another company which is living off the host that is Twitter gets funding, my eyebrows raise just a bit. In pure business terms, this is about as meta as it gets: a company receives funding to propagate a business off of another company that makes no money â€" unless...

  Tags: Twitter, CoTweet, Venture Capital, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Catharine P. Taylor

• Why The World Is A-Twitter With Acquisition Rumors

  BNET - 2009-05-10

  Google, Microsoft and Apple have all been rumored to be poking around at Twitter, the hot new social media sensation, with good reason. Meanwhile, Google, Facebook and Twitter have been playing follow-the-leader with each other. Google recently introduced Profiles in an attempt to create its own social...

  Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Acquisition, Twitter, Social Networking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Michael Hickins

• ExecTweets Only Hints at a Twitter Business Model

  BNET - 2009-03-24

  You probably thought the stock market rose yesterday by about 500 points because of some incredibly-complicated plan to lift the world out of the financial crisis. Those who tweet, however, are probably so self-involved that they think it was because the first inkling of a Twitter business model emerged yesterday,...

  Tags: Twitter, ExecTweets, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Catharine P. Taylor

• Twitter founder rules out takeover

  Strategy Eye - 2009-03-13

  Twitter co-founder Biz Stone claims the micro-blogging site is not interested in merger or takeover bids, though it is keen to form partnerships with larger companies such as Google, says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Stone says the firm is in...

  Tags: Twitter, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management, Facebook, George Mitton, Google Inc.

• Yahoo! to buy Twitter rival Tumblr – Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-02-10

  Tumblr has denied rumours that Yahoo! is in talks to buy its micro-blogging platform for as much as USD50m. According to a report on technology site ValleyWag, Yahoo! is discussing a "low-to-mid eight figures" buyout of Tumblr, with Yahoo!'s SVP...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Twitter, Rumour, Tumblr, Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing Research, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Andrew McDonald