Twitter recruits former Goldman Sachs banker Anthony Noto as finance chief July 1, 2014 Anthony Noto, the former Goldman Sachs banker who worked on Twitter’s IPO, has been recruited as the social network’s chief financial officer. The 46 year-old replaces Mike Gupta, who becomes senior vice president of strategic investments in a reshuffle designed to allay fears caused by a slowdown in user growth. Both execs announced their moves [...]
Twitter turned down $500m offer from Facebook June 23, 2014 One of Twitter’s founders has revealed how the fledgling company turned down an offer from Facebook to buy the company for $500m. Speaking to Sky News, Biz Stone said that a meeting between himself, co-founder Ev Williams, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, resulted in an offer being made for the then startup. Stone said the [...]
Twitter adds editing and sharing platform SnappyTV to its flock June 19, 2014 TWITTER has snapped up SnappyTV, the real-time video-sharing service, as it works to improve its services for broadcasters, businesses, and event producers to share high-quality videos on the service. SnappyTV, which launched in 2010, was acquired for an undisclosed sum by Twitter. “Our goal is to help publishers quickly share great moments from events so [...]
Twitter to buy video sharing site SnappyTV June 19, 2014 Twitter is extending its drive into video today after it announced the acquisition of SnappyTV, a video sharing website. The social media network has already started to embrace video with its Amplify programme, which allows sponsored video excerpts of televised content to be easily viewed on mobile. SnappyTV, which allows users to edit and share video [...]