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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

• 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

• 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

• Yahoo! should bid for NYT, analyst claims

  Strategy Eye - 2009-01-27

  Yahoo! should buy a major blog or news company, such as newspaper The New York Times, claims Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, in a new research note. As part of a four-part recovery plan for the beleaguered web portal, Munster...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Blogging, Portals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Investment, Finance, Gawker Media, Twitter, Andrew McDonald, Google Inc., New York Times Co.

• Two Reasons Why Twitter Rejected Facebook's $500 Million Offer

  Content Next - 2008-12-04

  Last month, we learned that Twitter turned down Facebook's $500 million acquisition offer, and now two reasons are surfacing as to why. The explanations came out after The New York Times covered a Tuesday night event in San Francisco, where Twitter's CEO and co-founder Evan Williams spoke publicly about...

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Investment, Finance, Companies, Microsoft, Money, VC M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Tricia Duryee

• Six Apart buys micro-blogging service Pownce

  Strategy Eye - 2008-12-02

  Twitter-competitor Pownce is shutting down on December 15, following its acquisition by blogging firm Six Apart. Pownce says users can export their accounts to rival sites such as Six Apart’s Vox service, retaining their messages and media. A number of Pownce users are also expected to migrate to Twitter....

  Tags: Six Apart Ltd., Twitter-competitor Pownce, Blogging, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Investment, Finance, Digg, Pownce, Six Apart, Twitter, George Mitton

• Six Apart Gobbles Up And Shuts Down Pownce

  Content Next - 2008-12-01

  Blog tech and advertising company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging platform Pownce for an undisclosed sum, VB reports. But don't expect Pownce, which lets users broadcast short messages (including videos, photos and mp3s) to be embedded into any of Six Apart's current blogging tools—at least not in its current...

  Tags: Six Apart Ltd., Twitter, Pownce, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Marketing, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Money, VC M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tameka Kee

• Six Apart Gobbles Up And Shuts Down Pownce

  Content Next - 2008-12-01

  Blog tech and advertising company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging platform Pownce for an undisclosed sum, VB reports. But don't expect Pownce, which lets users broadcast short messages (including videos, photos and mp3s) to be embedded into any of Six Apart's current blogging tools—at least not in its current...

  Tags: Six Apart Ltd., Twitter, Pownce, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Marketing, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Social Media, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tameka Kee

• Twitter Buys Start-up's Assets; Hires Founder Rael Dornfest

  Content Next - 2008-11-25

  Twitter grabbed headlines today after reports surfaced saying it declined a $500 million buyout offer from Facebook. Now, Twitter is making more news today by saying it has acquired the assets of Values of n, a company that developed a sticky-note application as well as a personal productivity app...

  Tags: Asset, Twitter, Asset Management, Blogging, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship, Biotechnology, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Research & Development, Management, Money, VC M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Tricia Duryee