Bill Gross

Ashton Kutcher Has a Twitter App. Why?

Liz Gannes in Social on May 23, 2011 at 9:38 am PT

Actor and social media guru Ashton Kutcher is launching a custom Twitter client built with UberMedia. A.Plus is an Adobe Air desktop client featuring content channels curated by Kutcher as well as a built-in browser to view content linked in tweets.

Hey! What Happened To TweetDeck's UberMedia Deal?

Peter Kafka in Media on April 18, 2011 at 8:19 pm PT

Good question! This one was supposed to wrap up months ago–but never did. And now Twitter is reportedly in the mix. Step inside for known knowns, known unknowns, and more!

Twitter Suspends UberTwitter and Twidroyd Apps for Violating Policies

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 18, 2011 at 2:14 pm PT

Twitter suspended three popular mobile applications made by UberMedia today, affecting potentially thousands of Twitter users across both iPhone and Android platforms.

Was TweetDeck's Sale a Good Deal? That Depends on Bill Gross.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 2:04 pm PT

TweetDeck investors are getting some cash, and a lot of equity, in their $30 million sale to UberMedia. So if Bill Gross can build a Zynga to Twitter’s Facebook, they’ll be in great shape. If not…

Bill Gross's UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million From Accel, Index and Steve Case

Kara Swisher in News on February 14, 2011 at 9:04 am PT

UberMedia, which just bought TweetDeck for $30 million in equity last week, has raised $17.5 million in a round led by Accel Partners. The valuation for the Pasadena, Calif., start-up founded by well-known entrepreneur Bill Gross–which was actually struck some month ago–is $40 million.

TweetDeck Finds a Home, and $30 Million, at UberMedia

Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2011 at 8:02 pm PT

UberMedia, the holding company that specializes in Twitter-based start-ups, has added its highest-profile company to date: Tweetdeck, the biggest Twitter application not owned by Twitter itself.

Q&A: Bill Gross's UberMedia Goes for a Third Name and Strategy

Liz Gannes in Social on January 24, 2011 at 1:00 am PT

NetworkEffect talks to UberMedia, the perpetually renamed year-old start-up, about the business of buying up independent Twitter clients that compete with Twitter’s own options.

Russia's DST Out of Twitter Funding Race, With Kleiner Poised to Take the Deal

Kara Swisher in News on December 6, 2010 at 11:24 am PT

According to sources close to the situation, the aggressive Russian investment outfit DST Global is out of the running to fund Twitter. Instead, the prize is almost certainly going to Kleiner Perkins, the legendary Silicon Valley venture firm of Web 1.0 that has been making a big push of late into the Web 2.0 market. The valuation for the new round–which sources said is well above $150 million–will be from $3.5 billion to $4 billion. There also might be smaller investors in the new round, which could be completed next week.

Hire Like It's 1999: Kleiner's Doerr Finally Lands Meeker After 11 Years of Trying (and It's About Time)

Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2010 at 12:46 pm PT

Wall Street’s star Internet analyst Mary Meeker considered leaving Morgan Stanley in New York for Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins 11 years ago. Today, she finally joined the legendary venture firm today as a partner in the digital arena. It’s a much-needed hire, given Meeker’s deep well of experience and the critical need for the still-lagging-behind-hotter-VCs Kleiner to wade more definitively into more current tech trends that she knows well.

Twitter’s Free Love Era Comes to an End: Time for Developers and Publishers to Pay Up

Peter Kafka in Media on May 24, 2010 at 3:32 pm PT

Twitter isn’t just booting other ad networks out of its stream. It now plans to tax some start-ups and publishers that are making money from the service. That’s a pretty significant change for the company, which has previously allowed anyone to do just about anything with its data, without asking for a cent.