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Twitter List Service TLists Becomes Sulia, Raises $3.5 Million
Ah! You can still raise money for a start-up whose fate is tied directly to Twitter. Here’s Sulia, which is dedicated to finding and sorting the most relevant Twitter users into related groups, so you...
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Local TV News + Twitter's Talking Heads = NBC's "The 20"
If you’re reading this, there are decent odds you don’t watch your local TV news broadcast. Would you be any more inclined if it featured a dollop of Twitter? NBC will find out. Its Local Media unit,...
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TweetDeck Finds a Home, and $30 Million, at UberMedia
UberMedia, the holding company that specializes in Twitter-based start-ups, has added its highest-profile company to date: TweetDeck, the biggest Twitter application not owned by Twitter itself....
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Bill Gross's UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million From Accel, Index and Steve Case
UberMedia, which just bought TweetDeck for $30 million in equity last week, has raised $17.5 million, in a round led by Accel Partners. The valuation for the Pasadena, Calif., start-up founded by...
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Was TweetDeck's Sale a Good Deal? That Depends on Bill Gross.
On paper, Twitter is worth $4 billion. Its investors, at least, believe it will be worth $10 billion sooner than later. So why is the leading Twitter application–the one that many of Twitter’s most...
View ArticleTwitter Restores Two UberMedia Apps
Twitter has given the all clear to two of the UberMedia apps it shut down Friday morning. UberSocial for BlackBerry, the app formerly known as UberTwitter, is back on, as is Twidroyd, No word on yet...
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Instagram Pushes Photos to Developers With New API
Instagram today released an API so developers can extend and incorporate its fast-growing photo-sharing service into their own products. Companies like Foodspotting, Thefancy.com, Dropbox, Momento,...
View ArticlePro Tip: How To Stop SXSW Twitter Overload In Its Tracks
There’s a lot of cool stuff happening in Austin at the South by Southwest conference this week, and All Things Digital will have three (3!) people on the ground to tell you about it. On the other hand,...
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Clear Out Twits! Twitter Tells Third-Party Developers to Stop Building Clients
Twitter today told developers explicitly that they should stop making third-party clients, citing repeated privacy policy violations and an inconsistent user experience. Ryan Sarver, who leads the...
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Stats Show Twitter Power Users Still Prefer Third-Party Apps
Third-party Twitter clients such as UberSocial, TweetDeck and Echofon generated 42 percent of a large sample of the service’s tweets on a recent day, according to the social media business intelligence...
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Q&A: Twitter's Jack Dorsey on Priorities, Products and Getting Punched in the...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey made news yesterday when he officially came back to his old company as a product boss. So it would be unfair to expect him to make more news today, when he appeared at...
View ArticleTwitter in Talks to Buy TweetDeck
Twitter Inc. is in advanced talks to buy TweetDeck Inc. for around $50 million, people familiar with the matter said. TweetDeck is one of the add-on programs that help Twitter users view and manage...
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Hey! What Happened To TweetDeck's UberMedia Deal?
Is Twitter really going to buy TweetDeck for $50 million? Got me. The last time I reported on the Twitter start-up, it was supposed to have been acquired by UberMedia for $30 million. I’ve asked all...
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Flipboard Triples Daily Usage in Two Months After Speed Improvements
Flipboard, the leading social news app for iPad, has tripled daily usage in the last two months, CEO Mike McCue said in a chat on Thursday. The app now sees eight to nine million daily “flips.” Flips...
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Ashton Kutcher Has a Twitter App. Why?
Actor and social media guru Ashton Kutcher is launching a custom Twitter client built with UberMedia. A.Plus, which seems to be aimed at people who primarily use Twitter to follow Kutcher, is an Adobe...
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Exclusive: Q&A With TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth on His Sale to Twitter
Now it’s a done deal. Twitter has indeed purchased TweetDeck. The deal closed last night, and Twitter has paid between $40 and $50 million in cash and stock for the startup. But we knew all that: The...
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Confirmed: Twitter Plans to Announce Photo-Sharing Service This Week
Twitter will announce a photo-sharing service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., this week, according to sources familiar with the matter. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is set to speak at...
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Why Betaworks Broke Up the Band
Inside baseball for people who pay attention to early round start-up investing and/or the clubby New York tech scene: Andy Weissman, one of the co-founders of the Betaworks holding...
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Bottlenose Is a Web-Based Twitter Client for Power Users
It was nine months ago that Twitter told outside developers they should stop building new Twitter clients. Since then Twitter bought and integrated power-user client TweetDeck, and tried to make all of...
View ArticleTweetdeck Gets a Facelift
In line with a series of recent aesthetic changes to its mobile products, the Twitter-owned Tweetdeck application updated its desktop apps Tuesday, aiming to streamline the layout while adding features...
View ArticleTweetDeck Gets a Touch-Up
Twitter updated its TweetDeck power-user interface on Wednesday, an aesthetic refresh of the application across all the platforms it runs on (Mac, Windows, Chrome and the Web). Flourishes include color...
View ArticleTweetDeck Catches Up Its Web Apps
Twitter on Tuesday announced a few improvements to the TweetDeck Web applications, including improved filters for content and keyword exclusion, and a method of filtering just for media like photos and...
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Why Twitter Killed Tweetdeck for AIR, iPhone and Android
It’s not like we didn’t see it coming. Twitter announced on Monday that it would soon kill off a few versions of its TweetDeck product in the coming weeks, ending support for the Adobe AIR, iPhone and...
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TweetDeck Chief Iain Dodsworth Departs Twitter
Iain Dodsworth, founder of the power-user application TweetDeck, announced Friday that he is leaving Twitter, two years after TweetDeck was acquired by the microblogging company. “Two years since the...
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The Future of Twitter Events Is Here
Twitter’s biggest draw to date has been the power of the event. From Hurricane Sandy to the Academy Awards, “events” are those moments of large-scale, even worldwide interest, ripe with the potential...
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