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Alibaba Sets $9.3bn Sales Record on Singles’ Day

Chinese ecommerce retailer Alibaba sold a record $9.3bn worth of goods in a single day yesterday. That single day, was Singles’ Day! Never heard of Singles’ Day? You’re obviously not doing business in China (or if you are you won’t be for much longer!) Singles’ Day is China’s answer to Valentine’s Day, celebrated every year on 11/11 […]

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Evan Williams Makes $1bn in 30 Minutes

Twitter stock has surged almost 75% in the opening minutes of trading on the New York Stock Exchange reaching .  The Telegraph published a table showing how this affects the company’s major investors.  Former CEO Evan Williams, who pivoted Odeo into Twitter after abandoning their original podcasting product, just made 1 billion dollars. Related articles […]

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Twitter Tweets its IPO Price

Twitter will be floated on the New York Stock Exchange today in an Initial Public Offering of 70 million shares priced at €26. The IPO price was announced last night, appropriately enough on the company’s own platform, with a tweet: We just priced our IPO. pic.twitter.com/NWXaO4Myq0 — Twitter (@twitter) November 6, 2013 They overcame the […]

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Twitter Is Filing For An IPO

Twitter is filing for an IPO We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. — Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013 You can expect the tech’ news sites to explode with this one over the next few hours! You can […]

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Social Media In 2012

2012 was an interesting year with Instagram being acquired by Facebook, Psy exploding on the music / video scene (and all the parodies that followed), Facebook had their IPO and so much more. Here’s a nice graphic from The SEO Company that sums it up month by month So does anyone have any predictions for […]

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Keyboard Warriors [Podcast #16]

Normally Conn does the write ups and puts the podcasts live, but this week I’m the one doing it, so here we go… This week Conn and I recorded the show in the evening, since both of us have been very busy. We picked up on the conversation we had been having a couple of […]

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Happy New Year!

2012 is upon us! So what does it hold for technology and the web? Will Facebook have an IPO? Will Google’s social network take market share from Facebook? Will ICANN be able to launch new TLDs on time? We don’t have the answers to any of those questions – yet, but throughout 2012 we plan […]

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