Until somewhat recently, Twitter’s site seemed reluctant to stay in working order. The company still lacks an identifiable business plan. And the economy as a whole has been imitating the current president’s approval rating. But an encouraging new email hints that at least one small job market might be all right, after all.
Amazon’s Bezos Throws Some Money At Twitter
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has thrown a little love (and presumably a lot of money) at Twitter. Twitter creator Biz Stone made the announcement via his blog that Bezos Expeditions, Bezos’s investment firm, joined Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet on the Twitter investment team.
Icahn Throws Haymaker At Yahoo Board
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn published a letter he submitted to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, officially confirming his intent to challenge Yahoo’s board.
Yahoo Throws Its Weight Behind The Semantic Web
The semantic web was one of those ideas that are always a little out of reach; statements of "that’s so cool!" emerged from few places other than tech conferences. Yahoo has announced its support for semantic web standards, however, so it looks like the thing may finally arrive.
Google Throws More Support Behind Static
Google joined another wireless alliance this week, the Wireless Innovation Alliance, a coalition of technology companies and public interest groups devoted to opening up "white spaces" for broadband use.
AOL Throws Cincinnati A Curve
The 2007 baseball season is opening with a surprising match up: the Cincinnati Reds versus AOL. The Major League Baseball club filed opposition to AOL’s application for trademark of "RED," the name of AOL’s social network for teens.
Groovy News: Sun Throws Woodstock
Project Woodstock from Sun Microsystems arrives as a new open source project for developing enterprise-level web applications.
Rival Throws Sour Grapes At Facebook Founder
It seems Facebook.com founder Mark Zuckerberg stepped on a few toes on his way to the top, and those toes are swinging back around to catch him in the pants. The young CEO (22) was recently chastised by an old rival, who doled out some backhanded advice while he was at it.
Reuters Throws Rocks In A Glass House
After Kenneth Lay’s death, Reuters put out an article mocking Wikipedia’s inaccurate coverage of the event. And, I have to admit, it was rather funny, if you like that sort of black humor. But now, in an ironic turn of events, Reuters had to issue a correction on its own story.
Technorati Throws A Slider
David Sifry provided part two of his State of the Blogosphere report, and announced a couple of new tools for the Technorati blog search engine.