Tag: twitter
Twitter brand pages has landed in Japan
Twitter has launched pages for brands in Japan, four months after it was introduced in the US last December and DoCoMo, Lawson and Warner Entertainment are said to be among the first companies that will be using the service in Asia, after US and UK.
Twitter: From Courtroom To Mainstream Media
“Using Twitter transformed my reporting as a member of the BBC team covering the Stephen Lawrence murder trial. It has its pitfalls. But I believe it has great potential,” Philippa Thomas wrote. The 140-character limit is a tough challenge for every journalist including Philippa Thomas. Nonetheless, she is now able to post news-related tweets. During the Stephen Lawrence verdict, she [...]
Tweet Hunt: Kill those Tweet!
The number of people using Twitter around the world are only growing with 140-character status keep revealing every major and minor happening in every person’s life, every minute. Now, iPhone and iPad allows you to “fight” back at those tweets, with a bit of Angry Bird style. You can see a bunch of Angry Birds’ [...]
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Public companies are limiting sales of its shares [Twitter, LivingSocial, Square]
Private companies rely on the stability of its stocks to stay in the game. Thus, shares sold and bought by investors are constantly monitored. A report by Bloomberg says, Twitter Inc., LivingSocial and Square Inc. are taking steps to bar investors from selling shares on secondary exchanges. Twitter asked its investors in its recent funding to refrain from [...]
Google+ to grab the second place in Social Network
A study done by Bloomberg shows that Google’s new social-networking service, Google+ may grow to become the second biggest social network within the next year, moving past Twitter and LinkedIn. It claims that 22 percent of the U.S. adults will be a part of Google+ by 2012. Google+ already has around 13 percent of the U.S. adults and 9 percent [...]
Social network neutrality: Redefine balance
What is Network Neutrality? Jave quoted definition, along with some real news from Tim Wu’s “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empire”. Simplifying it, network neutrality is seeking balance among intimate business players in similar field. It is derived due to existence of information monopolies. Start by time, innovation and interaction becomes essential to survive in [...]
Linkedin is now the second largest Social Network
LinkedIn Corp., a social network website focused on job seekers and recruiters, surpassed Myspace to become the No. 2 social-networking service in the U.S. The site users are mostly made of professionals and working class people. It had around 33.9 million visitors in June, up 63 percent from a year earlier, while Myspace had 33.5 million, [...]
Square Is Now Worth $1.6 Billion from $240m in January
Square, the mobile payments startup company that envisions revolutionizing the way of payment transaction (without cash and credit card) seems to grow rapidly each day. At the moment, Square promotes a free credit card reader to be attached to smartphones and iPhones, which turns them to a credit-card reader. Spearheaded by Jack Dorsey, one of [...]
Startups: Twitter Co-Founders Are On The Next One
Biz Stone has already confirmed his departure from Twitter last Tuesday to join his ex-comrade, Evan Williams, Twitter’s former chief executive, who left in March. The duo is joining forces to work on a new start-up, the Obvious Corporation. Mr Stone and Mr Williams were the ones who are responsible to turn Twitter into an [...]
