3 posts and columns on virality

Who Might Be Twitter's New Investors? The Usual Suspects, Of Course!

in News on November 2, 2010 at 10:12 am PT

Last week, MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka reported on a new funding effort by Twitter. Sources said the San Francisco microblogging phenom, which has seen huge growth of late, is considering a round of upward of $200 million. And who are the moneybags who might be the ones to keep Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in diamonds and furs–and away, for now, from the enticing clutches of a socially awkward and, thus, acquisition-minded Google? Read on….

DST's Alexander Tamas Talks About New Investors, New Investments and Dealing With Troubling Russian Stereotypes

in News on July 19, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

After Russia-based Internet investor Digital Sky Technologies got $388 million in a stock-swapping deal with South Africa media giant Naspers — coming after an earlier $300 million investment from China’s Internet behemoth Tencent — BoomTown dialed up DST partner Alexander Tamas in London to interview him about the implications. This developing international spiderweb of digital and media companies begged the question of what DST might do with all this new dough, especially since it has created quite a splash over the last year investing massive gobs of money in high-profile, social-focused U.S. Internet companies.