Twitter will now use humans, not just machines, to process your search terms

January 9, 2013 3:52 pm

Twitter has just upgraded the machinery behind its search, this time with added real-time human computation! Since machines are terrible… Continue reading ⟩

K9 Ventures raises $40M micro-VC fund

July 19, 2012 5:00 pm

K9 Ventures has raised $40 million for its second fund, a tech-focused micro-VC fund. The K9 Ventures II fund will be… Continue reading ⟩

Chris Sacca raising $25M investment fund, according to SEC filing

April 9, 2012 2:31 pm

Notable tech venture capitalist Chris Sacca has raised at least $25 million for new investment fund Lowercase Spur, according to… Continue reading ⟩

500 Startups raising new $50M fund, adds new partners

April 6, 2012 4:54 pm

Tech investment firm/startup accelerator 500 Startups is raising a new $50 million fund, according to a SEC regulator filing. 500… Continue reading ⟩

Twitter acquires search and discovery startup Bagcheck

August 8, 2011 5:18 pm

Search and discovery startup Bagcheck has been acquired by microblogging site Twitter, the company announced Monday in a blog post.… Continue reading ⟩

Twitter acquires BackType for improved analytics

July 5, 2011 9:15 pm

Twitter has acquired social media analytics startup BackType, according to a blog post published by BackType today. Financial terms of… Continue reading ⟩

True Ventures is raising a $200M fund

June 17, 2011 6:17 pm

True Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm founded by some big names in the startup world, is raising a $200… Continue reading ⟩

How Twitter 2.0 will make money

May 25, 2011 7:54 pm

This is the second of two articles on likely changes to Twitter. The first article focused on consumer-facing changes to… Continue reading ⟩

Here comes Twitter 2.0

May 24, 2011 8:58 pm

This is the first of two articles on likely changes to Twitter. This article focuses on changes to Twitter’s consumer-facing… Continue reading ⟩

UberVU lets you track and maintain conversations across the web

September 5, 2009 12:51 am

UberVU, a company that tracks comments across sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, and Digg, recently launched the public beta test of… Continue reading ⟩