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business

Twitter shares climb as activist targets CEO Dorsey

Twitter shares rose yesterday after Bloomberg reported that an activist investor has built a sizable stake in the social media company and is pushing for changes, including possibly replacing co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey.

business

Jack Dorsey discusses how an edit feature could work on Twitter

world

Violent videos retweeted by Donald Trump don't breach media policy, Twitter boss says

business

Twitter shares plunge on lacklustre fourth quarter

business

Twitter agrees to buy artificial intelligence firm

general

Twitter to drop links and photos from character count

NFL hasn’t beaten its domestic violence problem

Arguably, nothing has tarnished the reputation of the NFL more than the litany of domestic violence cases it has handled in recent years. And mishandled.

Sat, 07 May, 2016

Twitter decides to keep 140-character limit

Twitter will be sticking with its 140-character limit on tweets despite rumours that it would be upping it to as much as 10,000 characters.

Sun, 20 Mar, 2016

Twitter user growth stalls in fourth quarter of 2015

Twitter’s average monthly active users stalled in the fourth quarter of 2015 — the first flat quarter sequentially since the company listed in 2013.

Thu, 11 Feb, 2016

Twitter looks to extend text limit of 140 characters

Twitter appears ready to loosen its decade-old restriction on the length of messages in a bid to make its service more appealing to a wider audience accustomed to the greater freedom offered by Facebook and other forums.

Thu, 07 Jan, 2016

Jack Dorsey's payment company Square's underwhelming IPO leaves a lot to ponder

Shares in payment company Square surged by more than 60% at one point on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, wiping out much of the underwhelming effect of its IPO pricing strategy the previous evening.

Fri, 20 Nov, 2015

Twitter rolls out ‘likes’ in Ireland

Twitter investor Chris Sacca got his way, instead of clicking on a star to ‘favourite’ a tweet, users will click on a heart to ‘like’ it.

Wed, 04 Nov, 2015

Twitter names Jack Dorsey as CEO

Twitter has named co-founder and interim chief executive Jack Dorsey as its permanent CEO, ending months of speculation about who would take the reins at the company.

Tue, 06 Oct, 2015

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey confirmed as chief executive

Twitter is embracing Jack Dorsey as its chief executive in the hopes that its once-spurned co-founder can hatch a plan to expand the short messaging service’s audience and end nearly a decade of financial losses.

Mon, 05 Oct, 2015

Twitter to allow users exceed 140 characters

Twitter is finally waking up to the idea that some things just cannot be summed up in 140 characters.

Thu, 01 Oct, 2015

Ex-Twitter CEO says he won’t get in the way

Twitter’s departing chief Dick Costolo says that while he is confident in the current direction of the company, he also is willing to let the next CEO make the changes the person wants to make.

Wed, 17 Jun, 2015

Chirpy stock debut for Twitter, but not everyone was a winner

Twitter’s shares got off to a flying start on the NYSE, but can the company make money, asks Kyran Fitzgerald.

Mon, 11 Nov, 2013

Will the Twitter bubble burst?

Investors don’t care about retweets, they only care about making money. So what's next for Twitter after the second-largest tech IPO in history?

Sat, 09 Nov, 2013

Twitter shares make dazzling debut

Shares in Twitter have gone on sale to the public for the first time, instantly leaping more than 70% above their offering price in a dazzling debut that exceeded even Wall Street’s lofty hopes.

Thu, 07 Nov, 2013

Twitter's amazing growth in just seven years

Founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on this date in 2006. I sent my first on the same date in 2009. I found my voice and a career as a media commentator, so Happy Birthday, says Barbara Scully

Thu, 21 Mar, 2013

Parents sue Chicago hospital over back-from-dead son

The parents of an eight-year-old boy who has had severe brain damage for years have sued a Chicago hospital, alleging that doctors pronounced their son dead, keeping him off his ventilator for hours, even though relatives continued to insist that the boy’s eyes and body were still moving.

Sun, 21 Oct, 2012

The penny may finally be dropping that Tweeting is for the birds

THE fact that Ray Foley is a Twitter quitter just might start a trend.

Mon, 06 Dec, 2010

Twitter founder spills the beans on Jobs

IF you want a job with the one of the hottest young internet companies around, the first thing you’ll have to figure out is: Why am I here?

Sat, 30 Oct, 2010

Former Baptist minister Huckabee thanks God for poll surge

A rock ’n’ roll guitar-playing former pastor from the south, Mike Huckabee’s homey, grassroots appeal and unapologetic confidence in his views could serve him well on the road to the White House.

Fri, 04 Jan, 2008