The developer of pull-to-refresh was so concerned about how Twitter would use his patent that he asked Twitter to agree with him -- as part of the terms of the sale of his company -- that it would never use the patent offensively.
Loren Brichter, the founder of Atebits, the creator of the iPhone app Tweetie and the mastermind behind Twitter for iPhone, has completed his last day at Twitter.
“Today was my last day at Twitter. Taking some time to figure out …
After plenty of speculation and reports, Twitter announced officially today on its blog that the company had acquired popular third-party client Tweetdeck.
“This acquisition is an important step forward for us,” the company wrote. “TweetDeck provides brands, publishers, marketers and …
Here’s our overview of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days:
Hacker jailbreaks the iPad less than a day after release — A lot of people complained about the …
Twitter bought Atebits, the maker of a popular iPhone client for the microblogging network called Tweetie, today. The acquisition represents a big sea change in the way the company has cultivated its developer ecosystem.
For months and months, the company …
