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* Ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had some choice words for the company's board -- "These people f---ed me over," she told colleague Pattie Sellers -- despite having a non-disparaging clause in her employee contract. (Fortune)
* Google (GOOG) bought restaurant and travel guide Zagat, presumably for less than $66 million. (TechCrunch)
* Meanwhile, Google also introduced a new music discovery service, Magnifier, that introduces music to new users based on their preferences. (9 to 5 Google)
* Reports speculate that Facebook will launch a music service of its own later this month in cooperation with streaming services Spotify, MOG, and Rdio. (CNN)
* Twitter CEO Dick Costolo held a company "State of the Union" yesterday highlighting some new user numbers. There are now 100 million active users -- users who log in at least once a month -- with half of those users signing in at least once a day. (Fortune)
* Entrepreneur and Sling co-founder Blake Krikorian has joined Amazon's (AMZN) board. (All Things D)
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The rapidly growing social network held a so-called State of the Union to reveal new stats about its ongoing rise.
FORTUNE -- This week, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo hosted a small gathering at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco to give a brief update on the social network's growth. His self-described "State of the Union" highlighted a number of new user stats. The overall message? That Twitter thinks it is in a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 8, 2011 2:56 PM ET
With a multi-billion-dollar valuation and relatively small revenues, Twitter is Exhibit A for those who believe Silicon Valley is experiencing another bubble. At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference on July 19, the company's CEO, Dick Costolo, explained how the company's business works, including what ad products its customers are buying and how Twitters sells to them. He even hinted a major future product area: capitalizing on the commerce currently being conducted MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Jul 26, 2011 8:34 AM ET
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sat down with Fortune's Adam Lashinsky at Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, CO to discuss the company's future.
Below is an unedited transcript of the talk.
ADAM LASHINSKY: Dick, thanks for being here.
DICK COSTOLO: Sure.
ADAM LASHINSKY: Welcome back to Aspen. You were here last year. Biz Stone was with us the year before that.
I feel like we have a small elephant in the room, and we should get it MORE
Fortune Editors - Jul 19, 2011 7:34 PM ET
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* Fortune's annual Brainstorm Tech conference kicks off later this afternoon with the day's speakers including Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Square COO Keith Rabois, and Stephanie Tilenius, Google VP of Commerce and Payments. Keep checking the Web site throughout the day for the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 19, 2011 3:30 AM ET
Another one of Twitter's founders, Biz Stone, will leave the start-up.
FORTUNE -- In the continuing game of musical chairs among executives at Twitter, another of the company's founders is leaving. In a June 28 blog post, Biz Stone announced he will join founder Evan Williams, who left the CEO position last fall, and Twitter's former vice president of product Jason Goldman, who left the company abruptly in December. The trio MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jun 28, 2011 4:50 PM ET
The cofounder of Square is also logging a full workload at Twitter, down the street. His plans for both startups remain grand (think IPO, not buyout).
FORTUNE -- Twitter is not for sale. Jack Dorsey, the cofounder-turned-prodigal son made this clear in an interview Wednesday with All Things D columnist Kara Swisher at the D9 tech conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
Instead, it's more likely an IPO is in the compay's MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jun 1, 2011 9:23 PM ETBoardroom power plays, disgruntled founders, and CEO switcheroos are clipping the wings of this tech high flier.
By Jessi Hempel, senior writer
FORTUNE -- In March, shortly after Jack Dorsey went back to work for Twitter, the company he co-founded four years ago, he did a Q&A session with an entrepreneurship class at Columbia Business School. As students tapped away on their laptops (were they sending tweets?), Dorsey, 34, answered questions about MORE
Apr 14, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Despite getting pushed out of the company he founded, Dorsey says he doesn't regret a thing and paints the broad strokes of Twitter's path forward.
FORTUNE -- The news buzzing all around Silicon Valley is probably one and the same: "@jack is back."
@jack is, of course, Twitter creator and co-founder Jack Dorsey, who confirmed, via Twitter, naturally, that he's returning to MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 29, 2011 3:17 PM ET
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President Obama wined and dined many of Silicon Valley's top execs last night during his first official trip to the San Francisco Bay Area. On the guest list: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 18, 2011 8:33 AM ET