Kara Swisher in News on August 1, 2011 at 9:54 am PT
As we had reported, DST is now officially Twitter’s sugar daddy with a big new slug of funding.
Kara Swisher in Social on July 20, 2011 at 12:42 pm PT
In a move reminiscent of one done by Facebook in 2009, Twitter is zeroing in on a complex $800 million funding deal, which includes a tasty $400 million payout for its current investors and also employees.
Kara Swisher in D9 on July 5, 2011 at 6:43 am PT
Jack Dorsey has certainly had a multi-faceted career, from plotting bike messenger routes to inventing microblogging giant Twitter to his newest payment start-up, Square.
But what he really wants to do is…
Kara Swisher in D9 on June 29, 2011 at 6:02 am PT
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is well-known in Silicon Valley as a funny guy, but he trotted out some serious stats in this onstage interview with Walt Mossberg at the recent ninth
D: All Things Digital conference.
Kara Swisher in Social on June 9, 2011 at 1:58 pm PT
Were all the politicians in Congress taken up in some sort of rapture to a Twitter-free zone?
Nope, just the effect of the unfortunate nether-region photo tweet by Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, which has apparently caused others on Capitol Hill to stop posting as much to the microblogging service.
Kara Swisher in D9 on May 24, 2011 at 12:58 pm PT
We’ve added Jack Dorsey, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest entrepreneurs, to the
D: All Things Digital conference stage.
He’s now busy disrupting the online payments space with his Square start-up, and before that invented a little service called Twitter.
Heard of it?
Kara Swisher in News on May 3, 2011 at 10:28 pm PT
Jeff Jordan, the president and CEO of OpenTable who unexpectedly stepped down from his job today at the online restaurant reservation leader, is set to take a job at a major venture firm in Silicon Valley.
While Benchmark Capital was a big funder of OpenTable before it went public in 2009, sources said the likeliest home for the well-known Internet player–Jordan has also been a major exec at eBay–is Andreessen Horowitz.
Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2011 at 6:35 am PT
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took time off from his myriad of witty talk show appearances to slap around a just-published Fortune story that was titled–get it?–”Trouble@ Twitter.”
Was it a knockout?
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard.
Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 8:46 am PT
On some level of journalism, I guess anything
could happen.
But does that mean it should?
Some sensational stories in tech of late have led to some even more sensational reporting.
