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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

• Zappos allies with Overlay.TV to offer interactive video shopping

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-29

  Internet retailer Zappos.com is introducing interactive videos to its site using technology provided by online video firm Overlay.TV. Zappos says consumers can shop using the videos by clicking on items in the clips and will be able to post the videos directly to social networks such as Facebook and...

  Tags: Video, Zappos, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Facebook, Twitter, Overlay.TV, Editorial, Nike Inc.

• 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 and LinkedIn sign deal to sync status updates

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-09

  LinkedIn and Twitter are rolling out an update that lets users post status messages across both social networking platforms. The move follows two recent partnership deals from Twitter, signed with Google and Microsoft’s Bing, and promises to give LinkedIn's business-focused social network a substantial boost in traffic. ...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., LinkedIn, Commentators, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Facebook, Twitter, Andrew McDonald, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

• Is Email Dead?

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Labs and author of "The Facebook Era," explains how social web platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, are impacting businesses. She says email is slowly being replaced by social networking applications -- a shift driven by young...

  Tags: Facebook, Social Web, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Twitter

• Peek reveals Twitter-only mobile device

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-02

  Twitter is launching a specially designed, Twitter-only mobile handset in partnership with mobile messaging service Peek. The TwitterPeek device has a small colour screen and runs on a high-speed wireless data network, over which users can send and receive unlimited tweets. TwitterPeek retails at Amazon.com for USD99 with a...

  Tags: Mobile, Twitter Inc., Mobile Device, TwitterPeek Device, Advertising & Promotion, Business Structures, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Finance, Twitter, Editorial, Amazon.com Inc.

• Twitter in data-mining talks with Microsoft and Google - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-07

  Twitter may be poised to turn its large user base and high profile into revenues following reports that the micro-blogging platform is in separate talks with Google and Microsoft to license its torrent of real-time posts.  Tech blog All Things Digital quotes sources close to the talks...

  Tags: Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Twitter, Jasper Jackson

• 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

• Microsoft brings mobile apps to emerging markets

  Strategy Eye - 2009-08-24

  Microsoft is targeting customers in developing countries with a system that lets developers make mobile apps for affordable, low-end handsets. The OneApp service will be a single gateway for users to access simplified versions of popular apps such as Twitter, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger from memory-light 'feature phones'....

  Tags: Developer, Phone, Mobile, Emerging Market, Microsoft Corp., App, OneApp, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Facebook, Twitter, Blue Label Telecoms, Andrew McDonald