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I Read The Tweets Today, Oh Boy: A Week In The 140-Character Life Of Donald Trump
Sunday, June 11, 2017 - 9:46am | 1214His team’s well-laid plans to make this week all about infrastructure went off the rails for President Donald Trump, done in by a familiar foe: a barrage of off-topic tweets delivered with all the finesse of a bunch of bazooka blasts. He called the mayor of London “pathetic” two...
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Victor Anthony Gives The Lowdown On Pandora, Snap, Twitter And Amazon
Monday, May 22, 2017 - 10:15am | 1075It is and always has been about technology. But contemporary disruptions in the innovative space, both inherent to sector players and imposed by outside economic forces, have bolstered some and crushed others. Victor Anthony, managing director of internet media at Aegis Capital, broke down the...
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Will The Return Of Biz Stone Alleviate Fundamental Concerns At Twitter?
Friday, May 19, 2017 - 11:35am | 989Biz is back, but his excitement to return to Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), a company crippled by public criticism and metric declines, hasn’t exactly resonated with investors. Although Biz Stone's Tuesday announcement initially prompted a 2-percent stock spike, shares ultimately closed down 6...
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6 Great Things Biz Stone Could Do For Twitter
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 1:24pm | 632Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) shares jumped 2 percent after cofounder Biz Stone announced he is returning to work for the company full-time. Why are investors so optimistic about Stone’s return? Here’s a look at a few ways he could light a fire under Twitter. 1. Boost Company Morale Stone...
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Biz Stone Is Going Back To Twitter
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 1:50pm | 583After a four-year hiatus to co-found and lead Jelly Industries, Inc., another member of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR)’s co-founding team is coming home. “There’s something about the personality of a company that comes from the folks who start it,” Biz Stone wrote in a Tuesday...
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Startup Class Of 2006: Where Hulu And Others Are Now
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - 12:33pm | 814The year 2006 was a trying time for the U.S. economy, as GDP growth slowed along with job growth. The high-flying residential housing market landed with a thud. Consumers were stifled by rising debt burden. The U.S. dollar was sold off on expectations that the Federal Reserve would either stand pat...
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Biz Stone Rallies Behind Dick Costolo And Adam Bain
Friday, March 13, 2015 - 3:41pm | 337When Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings in early February, not only did investors and the Street applaud it by sending its shares higher, but it also silenced critics who were asking for Dick Costolo to be ousted as the CEO of the company. Twitter co-...
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Biz Stone: Twitter Is A Company Of Enduring Value
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 6:03pm | 294Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) has gone through big changes in the last couple of months. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter and current CEO of Jelly Industries, was recently on Bloomberg to discuss the recent changes Twitter has gone through. "Well, there's always been management changes at...
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Twitter Prices at $26; First Day's Trading Could Be Volatile
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 7:35am | 743Social-networking company Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), famed for its 140-character messages, announced its $26 a share pricing late Wednesday. The IPO values the company, founded only in 2006, at roughly $14.4 billion. With overallotments, restricted stock and the like, the market value for the...
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Biz Stone's Twitter Spamming Explained by a Mysterious Button
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 3:24pm | 128It's like an episode of Lost meets Three's Company. The cat's out of the bag, and that cat's name is Biz Stone. The Twitter co-founder caused a bit of trouble this afternoon when his account went spam-happy and tweeted his (apparent but not confirmed) support for a political candidate. Now...
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Twitter Co-Founder Goes Spam Crazy, His Twitter May Have Been Hacked
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 2:14pm | 189Either that or Biz Stone really, really wants us to vote for some guy named Ed Lee. Lee is apparently running for Mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. Over the last 30 minutes, Stone's Twitter page has been overrun with the same tweet, “Will you endorse @EdLeeforMayor for Mayor on @...
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Twitter: We're Not Sellling (GOOG)
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 4:08pm | 68Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that Twitter isn't for sale, not for $4 or $5 billion, even if Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) came up with an offer for the micro-blogging site. Stone said that Twitter isn't ready to be sold yet, despite Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying that Twitter could be potentially very...