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SLIDESHOW: 13 Major Tech Founders and Innovators That Are 'Smitten With The Mitten'
Monday, June 24, 2013 - 4:30pm | 126Read More...Technology companies are often synonymous with Silicon Valley or other tech hubs, but many of the founders of the major publicly traded tech companies come from a place that hasn't exactly been known for innovation in the last 30 years: Detroit. Encompassing the entire Metro Detroit area as...
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Twitter Responds to Facebook's Buyout of Instagram
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 4:51pm | 364Read More...Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has never been particularly threatened by Twitter's presence. The return of Jack Dorsey in addition to Dick Costolo as CEO and Adam Bain as Head of Revenue, which was interpreted as Twitter getting ‘serious', didn't change Facebook's position. As the mobile platforms gained...
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Could Google or Facebook Survive a 24-Hour Blackout?
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 9:10am | 896Read More...On the day when several websites are going dark in protest of SOPA, Google and Facebook are up and running as normal. Those who visit Wikipedia will be greeted by the same landing page, but English-speaking visitors who conduct a search will come up short. Instead of retrieving a detailed...
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In 24 Hours, Your Favorite Websites Will Shut Down
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 8:41am | 879Read More...Kiss them goodbye. Wikipedia, the uber-popular homemade encyclopedia covering just about everything, is so determined to oppose the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) legislation that it is going to shut down the English version of its website for one day starting on...
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Twitter at 250M Tweets a Day, Worth $8 Billion
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 8:03am | 359Read More...On top of that, the company has more than enough money to keep it from going public. While the hoopla for Facebook's IPO and its absurdly overhyped announcements have ruled media headlines this year, Twitter has been sitting quietly, maintaining its unique service while slowly expanding the brand...
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Twitter Worth $7.7 Billion
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 11:09am | 179Read More...In private trading on Sharespost, Twitter is now valued at $7.7 billion, which is inline with what the company reportedly was discussing a few weeks ago with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Facebook, when rumors surfaced the company was looking to sell itself. CEO Dick Costolo later came out and said...
