LinkedIn CEO “fully expects” to build in-enterprise social networking tools

August 4, 2011 3:00 PM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Business social-networking site LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner said he expects to include internal enterprise communication tools like those seen in Salesforce.com’s Chatter and Yammer within LinkedIn.

“Certainly as enterprises become increasingly social, that’s an area where we want to …

Twitter confirms investment from Facebook, Zynga investor DST

August 1, 2011 10:07 AM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Twitter today confirmed that it is raising a large funding round from Russia’s DST, the investment company that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga.

“Now we have an opportunity to expand Twitter’s reach with a significant round of funding led …

Regulatory filing indicates Twitter raising $400M round

July 27, 2011 9:39 AM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Twitter is raising $400 million in its seventh round of funding, according to documents uncovered by venture capital information service VCExperts.

The company is issuing around 10.1 million shares of Series G-1 preferred stock and 14.8 million shares of Series …

Twitter raising $400M round, valued at $8B

July 7, 2011 3:49 PM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Micro-blogging service Twitter is in the process of raising $400 million in funding that would value the company at $8 billion, according to a report by the New York Times.

The site has more than 300 million registered users who …

200 million Tweets flow through the Twittersphere daily

June 30, 2011 1:29 PM Matthew Lynley
Matthew Lynley

Micro-blogging service Twitter said its users now send short messages called tweets more than 200 million times every day.

Whether the messages convey bits of conversations, the latest news or something from one of the site’s thousands of novelty accounts, …