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Exclusive: Silicon Valley Go-To Guy Peter Currie Joining Twitter Board
According to sources close to the situation, well-known Silicon Valley power player Peter Currie is joining the board of directors of Twitter. It’s an interesting choice to bring the well-regarded...
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Q: Why No Twitter Board Seat for Kleiner's John Doerr? A: His Google Board...
Yesterday, star venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins forked over $150 million in funding to Twitter. At at $3.7 billion valuation, that got him a big chunk of the San Francisco...
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The Men and No Women of Web 2.0 Boards (BoomTown's Talking to You: Twitter,...
In one memorable episode of the famous old short films “The Little Rascals,” after not getting invited to a party, the Our Gang little dudes decided to form their own group, comically called “The...
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Music Sharing Service SoundCloud Raises $10 Million From Index, Union Square
Music start-ups have been a money incinerator for a long time, but that doesn’t stop investors from trying again. Here’s the latest example, which I first wrote about back in October: SoundCloud, a...
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Was TweetDeck's Sale a Good Deal? That Depends on Bill Gross.
On paper, Twitter is worth $4 billion. Its investors, at least, believe it will be worth $10 billion sooner than later. So why is the leading Twitter application–the one that many of Twitter’s most...
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How About #Dontvoteforme, So BoomTown Gets the No. 140 Spot in Time's Tweet-Off
Yes, it is perverse, but I really want to come in dead last in Time magazine’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds.” Why? Well, there’s no way I am getting near the top with the likes of Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga...
View ArticleEat Your Vegetables, and Don't Forget to Tweet
As a teenager, Jessica Wilson rebelled against her parents. She refused to tweet. Parents are always looking for ways to position their children for success, from piano lessons to Mandarin immersion....
View ArticleQOTD: Keep Calm and Carry on, Twitter!
In any case, I hope Google+ succeeds. Given the blog posts saying this will kill Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare, etc, you might wonder why I feel that way. Well first, I don’t think competitors kill...
View ArticleQOTD: That Said, Damning Google+ With Oldster Demo Praise
Google+ fills a void between public and private, it serves what is likely to be an older demo less interested in hooking up or hipstering out and more interested in the social utility it provides. A VC...
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Etsy Moves CTO Dickerson to CEO, Replacing Founder Rob Kalin
Etsy, the handmade goods online marketplace, has appointed its CTO Chad Dickerson (pictured here) as CEO. He replaces founder Rob Kalin, who stepped back into the top leadership role in late 2009....
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Union Square Ventures Gives Turntable a Spin
Turntable.fm, the most-buzzed about Web music service not named Spotify, has a new high-profile backer. Union Square Ventures will be leading the company’s new funding round. Betabeat first reported...
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Twitter Shakes Things Up Again: Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet Leaving Board
Twitter is reshaping itself yet again, this time at a corporate level: Investors Fred Wilson and Bijan Sabet are leaving the company’s board at the end of the month. Sources say the company won’t fill...
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The State of Social Sharing With Fred Wilson, Roger McNamee and More (Video)
Here’s a panel I did last week at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley. The panel was called “Social Sharing and the Data-Driven Economy.” And while that...
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Reminder: It's Really Easy to Pirate TV. Even Live Sports.
Fred Wilson wanted to watch the Knicks game on TV last night. But because of a cable company pissing match, he couldn’t. But here’s a picture of the Union Square Ventures partner watching the New...
View ArticleEntropy, Dispersion and Fragmentation
I am totally convinced that the world of social media is not consolidating around one “winner takes all” social platform. – Fred Wilson
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From Kik to Clik: A Video-Sharing App That Works Without Wi-Fi
Consumers are increasingly using multiple screens to view content, and more technology is coming to market that enables users to share or control that media between screens. Now, Kik Interactive, the...
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To Stanch Layoffs, Yahoo Has Been Shopping Its Ad Technology Platforms to...
In an effort to minimize the impact of massive layoffs that Yahoo’s top management has been planning, according to sources close to the situation, one of the latest ideas to save costs and presumably...
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Q&A: Behind Brewster, the Buzzy New Modern Address Book
Tying into the growing trend of mobile apps that add context and connection across users’ scattered lives, Brewster launched today a smarter iPhone address book. The New York City-based company behind...
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Silicon Snowbank: A New Incubator for Buffalo to Give Local Start-Ups a...
Actually, if truth be told, Buffalo, N.Y., is one of the loveliest places to visit in the summer, especially if you’re lucky enough to be right next to majestic Lake Erie. And that is where the Z80...
View ArticleEmail Turns 30
On August 30, 1982, the Internet’s most-used portmanteau (a mashup of two words) first entered the public lexicon. It arrived not with a bang, but with the issuance of a copyright to 16-year-old V.A....
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