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Kevin Rose Believed To Be Joining Google To Work On Social Efforts
In April 2011, Kevin Rose started working full-time at a mobile development company called Milk. Milk launched a food and restaurant recommendation app called Oink, which was downloaded about 150,000 times in its first month as a free app. Rose is known for launching the social bookmarking website Digg.com and being a host of the popular podcast called Diggnation. Google has hired Kevin Rose through some sort of acqui-hire deal.
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Categories Dave Morin, Evan Williams, Facebook, Google, Kevin Rose, Milk Inc., Oink, Philip Rosedale, Shervin Pishevar
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Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, and Other Tech Company Execs Sign Petition Against SOPA
Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill that was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in October 2011 by Lamar Smith (R-TX). This Act would allow the Department of Justice and copyright holders to seek court orders against websites accused of copyright infringement that would prevent online ad networks and payment facilitators from doing business with those websites. Opponents in this bill believe that this is Internet censorship. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, and Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang oppose the bill. Their letter will appear as a paid ad in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.
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Twitter Co-Founders Hint At New Project
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have announced a new project called Lift. Lift is expected to be a new application that will unlock the human potential, whatever that means. This project will be under the company Obvious Corporation, which was founded by Williams several years ago.
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Stone, Williams & Goldman Leave Twitter to Bring Back The Obvious Corporation
Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, men responsible for Twitter, plan to re-start their former company The Obvious Corporation. Obvious was a company they formed prior to Twitter’s fame, and abandoned in favor of focusing on Twitter. The reborn Obvious will, in Stone’s words, “help people work together to improve the world.” What that means, exactly, is unclear, but it sounds like it will be a source of innovative products. All three have stepped back or resigned from Twitter to return focus to The Obvious Corporation. [TechCrunch]
Kevin Rose’s Milk Inc. Raises $1.5 Million
Milk Inc. is a new company that was co-founded by Kevin Rose. Rose is the founder of Digg and co-founder of Revision3. Milk is essentially a company where several developers brainstorm technology and mobile ideas and works away at building them. If there isn’t any sudden traction, then the project gets shut down. Milk has raised $1.5 million in angel funding from well known investors. Investors include Mike Maples, Jr. (Floodgate), David Sze (Greylock Partners), Ron Conway, Dave Morin, Philip Rosedale, Evan Williams, Joshua Schachter, Ashton Kutcher, Michael Arrington, Philip Kaplan, Chris Sacca, Tony Hsieh, Gary Vaynerchuk, and several others. [VentureBeat]
Noah Glass Came Up With The Name Twitter And He Considers Himself A Co-Founder
BusinessInsider.com did a thorough interview with Noah Glass. Glass worked at Odeo before the idea for Twitter even came up at that company. Glass was fired from Odeo, the former parent company of Twitter back in 2006. Glass was a co-founder of Odeo, who had an investor that eventually became CEO Evan Williams. Odeo was a podcasting start-up company that faced immense competition from iTunes. Williams told everyone at Odeo to come up with a different idea.
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Categories Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Florian Webber, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Twitter
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How Mark Zuckerberg Made An Acquisition Offer To The Twitter Team
Biz Stone recently did an interview with Howard Stern. During the interview, Stone discussed how Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a buy-out for Twitter back in 2008.
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Categories Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Facebook, Howard Stern, Jack Dorsey, Jason Goldman, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter
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Jack Dorsey Back At Twitter As Head Of Product Development, While Remaining Square CEO
Jack Dorsey is returning to Twitter as the head of product development. Evan Williams will no longer be overseeing the product development, but he will remain on the board of directors. Twitter has been looking for another exec to lead the product design of the company since Jason Goldman left.
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Categories Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Jason Goldman, Twitter
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Twitter Surpasses 200 Million Accounts and 110 Million Tweets Per Day
Twitter has hit 200 million registered accounts. Of these 200 million accounts, about 110 million tweets are being sent out per day. This is up from 160 million users from September 2010. In December, Twitter was hitting about 95 million tweets per day.
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Categories Evan Williams, Twitter
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Google Fires About 2 People Per Month For Leaking Secrets To The Media
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is now firing about 2 people per month for leaking information to the media. It is known as the “NYT effect” in reference to a New York Times article that criticizes how bloated and bureaucratic Google has become. Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, has complained publicly about how Google handled the acquisition of Blogger before Google had their IPO. Blogger was a company that Williams founded and he was told that he would have a lot of power to hire people for the Blogger team. Hiring people on the Blogger team became a nightmare for him when Google had their IPO. [TechCrunch]
Categories Blogger, Evan Williams, Google, Twitter
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