Twitter Inc hired former Google advertising executive J.J. Hirschle to head its retail advertising sales team days after Apple Inc announced hiring a retail division chief.
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Twitter changes timeline design means more revenue to advertisers?
Twitter recently changed its design to give users a more direct experience. Twitter Inc has tweaked its design last Tuesday, Oct. 29, to provide its users direct image- and vide-sharing options within its timeline, according to a report from Reuters.
NextDoor receives USD60 million investment for international expansion
The USD60 million raised in NextDoor's Series C financing round would go towards hiring additional software engineers to develop its core product.
Enterprise communications startup Highfive raises USD9.5 million in Series A funding
Highfive, a startup that had been developing a product for enterprise communications, were founded by Shan Sinha and Jeremy Roy of collaborative document solution DocVerse.
Pinterest value at USD3.8 billion after massive Series E financing round
Investors including FirstMark Capital, Valiant Capital Management, Andreessen Horowitz had provided Pinterest a total of USD225 million in the latter's recent financing round.
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Ahead of its IPO, Twitter hired JJ Hirschle, a former Google advertising executive as the company aimed to expand its businesses and strengthened its workforce.
South Korean communication app maker Line would stand to be valued at USD8 billion should it go public, according to information technology news site The Next Web.
Twitter Inc co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey reportedly was not the one who had let go of co-founder Noah Glass.
Investors might not had been receptive of Facebook Inc's acquisition of Israeli mobile data analytics firm Onavo as stocks of the social media fell 1.5% in pre-market trading today.
Facebook Inc's investors including the social media company director Peter Thiel were not confident about the company's performance post-IPO.
Twitter would pay a smaller fee to bankers at 3.25% of its IPO valuation, compared to that of Facebook's, according to sources.
Twitter Inc's most anticipated IPO had been clouded with social media giant Facebook's last year debut, said a Reuters report.
Twitter Inc would reportedly pay 3.25% from its upcoming public listing as fee to its bankers, sources told Bloomberg.
A new book by New York Times reporter Nick Bilton had claimed that Twitter Inc Chairman Jack Dorsey got co-founder Noah Glass booted out from the company in 2006.
