Twitter Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
We're happy to announce two new members of our investment team: Bijan Sabet with Spark Capital in Boston and Jeff Bezos of Bezos Expeditions in Seattle. Bijan has also accepted a seat on our board of directors. We're looking forward to the guidance and advice both will bring to Twitter. Existing partners Union Square Ventures in New York City and Tokyo-based Digital Garage exercised their pro rata...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Twitter just announced yet another sum of funding, this including money from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezo's fund Bezos Expeditions. The company says the money will be spent on building up its infrastructure and reliability to become the communications utility it needs to be before it can become profitable. Om Malik unearthed the rumor of this round of funding last month and noted that Spark Capital...
Scripting News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
First today's news: Twitter announced investments from Spark and Bezos. Bijan Sabet will become a Twitter board member. They haven't announced a business model, their approach is to get big and stable and figure it out later. Unlike some, I don't see any problem with this approach. Lots of companies have made their investors very happy (and users) with such an approach. Disclaimer: Sabet is a friend...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Twitter's long-rumored funding round is finally real : Spark Capital and Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos (via Bezos Expeditions) led the round, with existing investors Union Square Ventures and Digital Garage also participating. Spark's Bijan Sabet, an active Tweeter , joins Twitter's board. Co-founder Biz Stone didn't get into financial details on his blog post , but the numbers are probably similar...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Twitter has officially announced their second round of funding that we wrote about last month - new investors Spark Capital and Bezos Expeditions come on board. Spark partner Bijan Sabet has joined the Twitter board of directors. In the post, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone also talks about their aspirations to become a communications utility, and not [...]
James Governor's Monkchips (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Its not news that Twitter has problems with availability. What I think may be news however is the community’s reaction to it. Sure some people have been abrasive and abusive. Some of have claimed they’re going elsewhere (anyone for Jaiku or Plurk?) But they keep coming back. One thing we should all remember though- Twitter is [...]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Finally Twitter announces its funding. The popular microblogging/messaging service says its newest investors are Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund. That Spark was participating was already known, though Bezos' participation is a surprise. Past backers Union Square Ventures and Tokyo-based Digital Garage also re-upped. The size of the round was not disclosed, though we and...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
It’s been in the works for several months, but Twitter has finally announced its new round of funding. Led by Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos of Bezos Expeditions (and also chief executive of Amazon), existing partners Union Square Ventures and Digital Garage also participated as well. Sabet has also accepted a seat on Twitter’s board of directors. In a post on the matter, co-founder Biz...
The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Twitter formally announces their additional investments and welcomes Jeff Bezos and Bijan Sabet [1] as investors in the company. Bijan Sabet will join the board of Twitter. Jeff Bezos, of course, is the founder and CEO of Amazon [2]. Biz Stone writes on the twitter blog:Jeff Bezos is said to have displayed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age. Having worked on Wall Street as a computer...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
It's no secret that Twitter has been struggling lately. At any given moment, the social chat platform can go down, preventing a plethora of Tweets from being broadcast to the socially adept. But that hasn't kept the company from getting another round of funding, and help from friends in high places. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is investing in the social network using his personal venture investment...
Global Neighbourhoods (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWrite Web has a good piece on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos investing in Twitter through a new round rumored to be $15 m, primarily for much-needed infrastructure improvements. As Marshall points out, Amazon is a poster child for early Internet scalability. It is also among the most rock solid of Web sites, and for that matter, retailers in general. I hope that Bezos' wisdom...
Moco News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Finally Twitter announces its funding. The popular microblogging/messaging service says its newest investors are Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund. That Spark was participating was already known, though Bezos' participation is a surprise. Past backers Union Square Ventures and Tokyo-based Digital Garage also re-upped. The size of the round was not disclosed, though we and...
Profy.Com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Though it's been some time coming, Twitter has finally revealed its private funding sources. With the latest boost in funding, the Twitter team should be able to deliver on its promise to the community to boost support for the platform across the board. Twitter revealed, at long last, its sources of private funding, which are Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos of his very own Bezos Expeditions....
Scripting News Annex (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
How to push stories to NewsJunk using del.icio.us Underneath its simple user interface there’s a lot of RSS that goes into NewsJunk. It’s like flour to cake or ice to hockey. The product is more than RSS, but without it, it wouldn’t be happening. As you know I’ve been re-exploring del.icio.us, yesterday I asked if it could [...]
Ben Barren (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
searchme.com $43m_VC Originally uploaded by redbarren So do u sometimes dream what u would do with a certain amount of VC ? According to TechCrunch searchme.com have raised over $43m to do Coverflow for Search . Having been at a company that raised that amount of money, you really dont need that much and can move the decimal point one digit left and be quite happy with a few mill rather than tens...
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
photo by Chris Villanueva [flickr] via our group pool [#]. Just like Harry Potter had to leave Hogwarts, Harry and the Potters have graduated to playing shows that aren’t in the library. Mark your calendars for 23 June when they’ll be joining Math the Band, Uncle Monsterface, and Jason Anderson and the Best for Unlimited Enthusisam [...]
