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š Twitter may look to double IPO to $2B
Now this is operation fast and furiousź¦ . Twitter is racing toward the yearās most eaāgerly awaited stock market debut with plans to start its roadshow for prospective investors in New...
'Fab' start-up slices 20% of staffers
It was a not-soą¹-Fab a week for one of the cityās most watched tech start-ups. Fab.com fired about 80 people from its New York offices, in a purging of about...
Nasdaqās Greifeld pitches Twittšer for listing ā
Thereās no retweet, no surrender for Bob Greifeld. Despite the apparent long odds against Nasdaq landing the much-coveted Twitter listing, CEO Greifeld was spotted at the micro-blogging companź¦yāsš headquarters Friday...
ā Bankrupt firm ją¹umps 700% after traders mistake it for Twitter
ź¦” What a bunch of stock twits! Shares of Tweeter Home Entertainment, a Boston-based consumer electronics chain that filed for bankruptcy in 2007, soared Friday in a case of mistaken identity...
Could a Twitter founder miss out on his payš³day?
Heās stone cold silent. Biz Stone, a Twitter cšÆo-founder and former chief ešxecutive, isnāt even nameĀ checked in the financial disclosure documents the company filed ahead of itsĀ market debut. In fact,...
Nearly 5 percent of Twitter users are spambāots š
Twitter admits it has a spam problem. The microblogging service, which released financial information publicly for the first time, saš¼id less than 5 percent of accounts are considered spam, or...
Twitter looking š to raise $1 billion in IPO
Twitter tookš» another step toward its much-anticipated initial public offeāring, unsealing financial documents that show it hopes to raise as much as $1 billion. The release of the documents puts...
Top Microsoft investors want Bill Gā¦ates out
The Steve Ballmer era is coming to an end at Microsoft, but thaātās not enough for some investors who want a clean break with the past. For the first time,...
š¼ New iPhone sales liftź¦ Apple 4.5 percent
With the iPhone back in stock, Appleās stock is back in action. Since the new iPhone 5s and 5c started selling Seš¼pt. 20 shares are up about 4.5 percent. Apple...
š² NYSE wooed Twitter listing from the start
š ° In the contest for Twitterās affections, the Big Board is counting on its long courtship. The New York Stock Exchange began wooing the microblogging service nearly two years ago, when...
Getting a handle on @Twitter bršanding
š Whatās in a Twitter name? Plenty, it turns out. As more and more corporations and celebrities look to acquire some of the most covšÆeted real estate in social media circles...
šÆ Tweet love for that other Bieber
The simplest Twitter names can be a source of mass confusion. When your handle is @bieber, for instance, yošu receive a lot of uniź¦ntended messages meant for a certain teen...
Amazon adds 'Mayday' help button to Kindle tablets
For Kindlāe Fire users, help is just a tap away. In an appeal to tablet newbies, the new Amazon Kindle Fire HDX boasts a āMaydayā button for users to connect...
ź¦ Blackberry makes $4.7 billion dealšÆ
BlackBerry mašde for easy pickings. The once iconic mobile-phone maker struck a $4.7 billion deal to sell itself to a Canadian investor consortium led by Prem Watsa, aka the Canadian...
Apple sells 9M new iPhones in first 3 dą“ays
Apple has struck gold. The tech giant šsold a whoā±pping 9 million of its high-end iPhone 5s and less-expensive iPhone 5c in their opening weekend. That topped last yearās record,...
Wall Street working on Twitter's credit line
Call it tweet consolation! JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanleyš¶ have nabbed lead roles on a planned revolving line of credit for Twitter ahead of the red-hotš tech companyās much anticipated...
JPMorgan ą¼and Morgan Stanley win Twitter business
Call it tweet consolation! JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Staš“nley have nabbed lead roles on a planned revolving line of credit for Twitter ahead of the red-hot tech companyās much anticipated...
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Two million-pšØlus iPhone sales a day could keep critics away. Thatās how fast the new iPhones are expected to fly off store shelves startšing Friday, according to Wall Street analysts....
āGrand Theft Autoā breaks recš²oš ·rd
āGrand Theft Auto Vā has pulled off the biggest video-game haul in history. Take-Two Interactive said the fifth installment of its višolent franchise rang up $800 million in its first-day...
ā š¹ Morgan Stanley grilled by Twitter execs
Morgan Stanley may beź©µ losing its tech luster. The firą²mās well-buffed reputation as the savviest tech banker in Silicon Valley was dented and dirtied by Twitter executives as the micro-blogging...