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Ex-Googlers Flock 35 Miles North to Twitter

Liz Gannes in Social on August 2, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

A significant portion of Twitter employees — something like 13 percent — used to work at Google.

Twitter Courts Google's Sundar Pichai for Head of Product

Liz Gannes in Social on January 8, 2011 at 6:49 pm PT

Sundar Pichai, the man in charge of Chrome and Chrome OS at Google, is being aggressively courted by Twitter to be its next head of product, according to sources. But Google is apparently fighting back hard on this latest effort by high-profile Web 2.0 companies, including Twitter and Facebook, to raid its huge talent pool.

Goodbye FeedBurner, Hello MailChimp

Kara Swisher in News on September 21, 2010 at 5:12 am PT

While All Things Digital had been using FeedBurner–now owned by Google–for a while, and although it pains us to leave any creation made by Dick Costolo, the new provider of our daily email newsletter is MailChimp. For ATD readers, we think MailChimp is more versatile and flexible. We can publish more than just our RSS feed within the email, including hot and trending topics, links to evergreen coverage and apps, as well as advertising. Plus, it’s prettier.

Twitter's COO Dick Costolo Talks About Management, Monetization and IPO Cravings!

Kara Swisher in News on August 18, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown headed to the well-appointed downtown San Francisco HQ of Twitter as part of a renewed quest that I have dubbed “Meet the Twits.” No, really! Since Twitter has been on a significant hiring spree for all kinds of execs and staffers–it now has almost 250 employees–I have been in need of some serious meeting and greeting to see what’s going on there at the microblogging kingpin. First stop: COO Dick Costolo.

When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled

Kara Swisher in News on November 24, 2008 at 12:45 am PT

About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. While rumors of Facebook’s interest were brought up in an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago, some shot down the idea as silly. Quite incorrectly, as it turns out, since top execs at both Facebook and Twitter were right then at the tail end of discussions, which were initiated by the privately held Facebook in mid-October, about bringing the two together. Those talks, sources on both sides said, are now over. So why did the deal break down?