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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

• 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

• Microsoft Reaches Deal To Bring Twitter And Facebook Data To Bing

  PaidContent - 2009-10-21

  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has reached deals with both Twitter and Facebook to include real-time feeds from both sites in Bing’s results, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reports. The Twitter deal had been rumored for several weeks—but the the Facebook deal is a surprise. More to come. by Joseph Tartakoff

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Companies, Microsoft, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Ad.ly Gets $500,000 For In-Stream Twitter Ads

  PaidContent - 2009-10-20

  Ad.ly, a one-month-old ad network that matches popular Tweeters with advertisers, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from VC firm GRP Partners. Twitter users who sign up agree to send one Tweet from an advertiser every other day for seven days. They can set the price for the sponsored...

  Tags: Advertisement, Twitter Inc., Ad.ly, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Twitter Cracks Down On Spam

  PaidContent - 2009-10-14

  In its latest attempt to clean up the messages being sent across its site, Twitter is now letting users flag spammers by clicking a “report as spam” button on their profiles. Twitter says a team of employees will follow up on the reports. Previously, users could only call attention...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Research & Metrics, Metrics, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Twitter In Talks With Google And Microsoft About Search Deal

  PaidContent - 2009-10-08

  Here’s one way that Twitter could get a guaranteed revenue stream: Charge Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to pay to license its data and include it in their search results. Kara Swisher at AllThingsD cites unidentified sources who say that both companies are now in “advanced talks”...

  Tags: Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Swisher, Tweets, Search, Operational Accounting, Business Structures, Finance, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff