Research from comScore shows that Twitter has jumped 131% in March to 9.3 million visitors in the U.S. This is an increase of 5 million visitors from February.
Pownce Founders Joining Six Apart Team
The first major micro-blogging casualty has emerged over the past week. Pownce, a Twitter-like lifestreaming service, announced it was closing its doors (figuratively speaking) mid-December.
Twitter Founders Accused Of Bending Over For Google
A bit of a Twitter spat erupted yesterday regarding Twitter making links on bio pages nofollow. Well, a spat would technically need to be two sided; it was more of a rage against the machine* with the machine remaining mostly silent.
Schmidt Says Google Founders Are Adults
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt says the Google founders have grown up."The boys have grown up," Schmidt said at a news conference before the company’s annual meeting referring to founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Yahoo Billionaire Founders At A Loss Today
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took his bat and ball and headed back to Redmond, Yahoo’s founding duo of Jerry Yang and David Filo saw nine-figure paper losses today.
Tech Founders Not All In Their 20s
The common belief that all entrepreneurs who start tech companies are in their 20s or teens is being challenged by a lengthy study that started in 1995 thru 2005 which found that only 1 percent of American founders were teenagers.The study by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and researchers at Duke and Harvard found that most U.S. born technology and engineering company founders are middle-aged, with the average and median age of 39.
MySpace Founders Stick With Murdoch
The term “ridiculously wealthy” may still apply, but MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have renewed their contracts with News Corp., and reports indicate that the pair won’t become quite as rich as they might have wanted.
MySpace Founders Want How Much?
Just as Rupert Murdoch and the News Corp apparatus pore over a potential deal for Dow Jones, MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have submitted their pay requests for consideration.
Dodgeball Founders Stop Playing Google’s Game
I used to enjoy playing dodgeball, but it was one of those games in which someone’s feelings (and/or body) often got hurt. Now the Internet service named Dodgeball has had a similar effect – its founders, Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert, have left Google, and the pair didn’t leave in the best of moods.
Google, dMarc Founders Part Ways
Usually when we talk about Google and personnel, it’s to report that the company has hired yet another big name, and it’s more than likely a major defection from a rival company.