What does a massive social network following and criticizing China's government from within get you? For Kai-fu Lee, the former head of Google in China, it was a three-day ban social networking.
Posterous, a blogging platform that embodies Tumblr’s simplicity, if not its stylishness, announced today it has been acquired by microblogging giant Twitter.
Posterous announced the acquisition Monday in a blog post. For now, Posterous will remain the same and the …
New York-based startup MightyMeeting has its sights on boosting mobile productivity in the enterprise. In keeping with the growing trend of using tablets to do work, MightyMeeting is unveiling a collaboration app called MightyTeams for the iPad and Android tablets.…
Hot on the heels of Twitter’s $800 million sixth round of funding, Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his firm Kingdom Holding have announced a $300 million investment in Twitter.
But the investment is actually a secondary deal, meaning …
Here’s a quick break from all-things-American on July 4th: Apple just sent us a tip about a shoe shiner in China reunited with her daughter after five years, thanks to an iPhone and Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
A 71-year-old shoe …
In a new survey by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 8 percent of all American adults who are on the Internet said that they use Twitter.
As the service climbs toward mass user adoption and stabilizes its …
Famed startup investor John Doerr recently said that turning down a chance to put money in Twitter, the fast-growing, San Francisco-based microblogging company, was one of his biggest mistakes.
He may be set to correct that mistake, according to Bloomberg, …
White-hot microblogging startup Twitter is growing at a booming pace, gleefully tweeting today that it just hired its 300th full-time employee as it continues a hiring spree that began last spring.
“We just hired our 300th employee. Wowza!,” tweeted Twitter’s …
Tumblr, a social media network made up of millions of personal and business blogs, is seeing massive traffic growth, but is undergoing equally big growing pains.
Activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketed over the first half of the …
StatusNet, a microblogging service with similarities to Twitter but designed for businesses, today announced it secured a second round of funding for $1.4 million. The funding will be used to support and grow its sales team and continue targeting the …
Scoopler, one of the startups that launched during the real-time search craze of last year, has a new way of tracking news on Twitter.
It’s called @wtf. Twitter users can post a message starting with that Twitter handle with a …
Blogging startup Tumblr, a service founded by David Karp that lets users publish short, simple blog posts, has secured a third round of funding for $5 million. The round, first reported by MediaMemo and confirmed to VentureBeat by Karp, was …
