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DataSift Raises $15 Million to Help Traders Mine Twitter Posts
Photograph by MedicImageDataSift is one of three companies that is authorized to resell the full "firehose" of tweets, according to Twitter's website. Stock traders look for an edge anywhere they can,...
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Nate Silver Doesn’t Like Twitter Data
Photograph by Amy E. Price/Getty Images for SXSWNate Silver, Founder & President of fivethirtyeight.com, speaks onstage at the 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival in Austin. Nate Silver’s...
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Twitter Co-Founder Dorsey ‘Not Even Thinking’ About IPO
Photograph by Frank May/dpa/CorbisTwitter’s IPO has been a source of speculation, but co-founder Jack Dorsey says it’s not on the company executives’ minds. Twitter’s initial public offering could be...
View ArticleSquare Takes On EBay, Etsy With Its Own Online Marketplace
Square is breaking out of its box, starting an e-commerce marketplace where merchants can sell products and services, such as handmade jewelry and yoga lessons. Until now, the startup has competed...
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Twitter Backer Fenton Poised for IPO Barrage
Photograph by David Paul Morris/BloombergPeter Fenton, a partner at Benchmark Capital, in San Francisco on May 24, 2012 Peter Fenton is a busy man. The venture capitalist, best known for his early bet...
View ArticleComcast Exec Talks About NBC’s Collaboration With Twitter on Viewing App:...
Sam Schwartz, chief business development officer at Comcast Cable, talks with Bloomberg’s Edmund Lee and Alex Sherman about See It. The new technology will enable Comcast customers to watch NBC...
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Twitter Ranks 5th in Engineer Pay Behind Google and Yahoo: Study
Photograph by David Paul Morris/Getty ImagesEmployees at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters in 2009. Plenty of Twitter employees can look forward to becoming paper millionaires when the company goes...
View ArticleZeebox Pushes for Virtual Living Room: Inside Scoop
On this week’s “The Inside Scoop” podcast, Anthony Rose, chief technology officer and co-founder of Zeebox, talks about efforts by cable companies to entice advertisers by improving audience engagement...
View ArticleTwitter Looks Expensive — For Those Even Following
It’s the eve of the largest U.S. technology initial public offering since Facebook. Don’t tell that to the finance world. Twitter is set to raise close to $2 billion tomorrow, giving a wide swath of...
View ArticleStartup Zendesk Adds 3 Women to Board, Bucking Technology Trend
Facebook and Twitter, as hyped as they were ahead of their public-market debuts, had in common one not-so-impressive number: zero female board members. While each company addressed the matter by adding...
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