Twitter account of China’s state broadcaster hacked
(Reuters) – China’s state broadcaster CCTV News said on Tuesday one of its Twitter accounts had been hacked, and deleted a tweet claiming the country’s...
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Twitter hires Google executive as head of retail: report
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc has hired an advertising executive from Google Inc to head its retail division, as the online messaging company ramps up hiring...
Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent
(Reuters) – Among Twitter Inc’s highest-paid executives, Christopher Fry’s name stands out. The senior vice president of engineering raked in $10.3 million last year, just...
Memories of Facebook cloud Twitter’s IPO
(Reuters) – When Facebook Inc was preparing to go public last year, the telephones at Granite Investment Advisors rang off the hook as clients called...
Twitter reveals rip-roaring growth, big losses ahead of IPO
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc, racing toward the largest Silicon Valley IPO since Facebook Inc’s 2012 coming-out party, hopes to woo investors with rip-roaring revenue growth...
Exclusive: Saudi prince to hold Twitter stake, sees IPO by early 2014
(Reuters) – Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he will not sell any of his shares in microblogging site Twitter Inc when it goes...
In Indonesia, buzzers are not heard, but tweet for money
(Reuters) – In Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, a buzzer is not an alarm or a bell, but someone with a Twitter account and more than 2,000...
Twitter launches music app to deepen multimedia offering
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc launched a stand-alone music-streaming app on Wednesday, opening another front in the micromessaging service’s ambitious expansion into multimedia content. The iPhone...
Updated: Twitter Acquires Music Service We Are Hunted
Twitter confirmed Thursday it had acquired We Are Hunted, a San Francisco-based music startup that tracks the most popular songs across the Internet and social media. “While...
Man in Jail for 5 Years over Insulting Kuwaiti Ruler on Twitter
Insulting the emir in the Arab state of Kuwait has landed a man in jail. The allegedly slanderous comments have been made on the Twitter...