Archive for April, 2009

Google in Talks to Acquire Twitter? April 2, 2009 2 Comments

WOAH! From Techcrunch this evening comes a crazy rumor:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-twitter/
Obviously this is huge – We’ll see what comes of it.  As we all know, these rumors come and go quite often, but this one just sort of feels like it’s going to happen after Google CEO Eric Schmidt hinted at the possibility of “an acquisition” on [...]

Facebook Re-Design a Sign of Trouble for the Company? April 1, 2009 No Comments

Happened upon this article today, thanks to @socialmedia411 (whose Twitter updates are a wealth of information BTW):
http://econsultancy.com/blog/3611-is-facebook-in-trouble
The first sign of this was the ever unpopular re-design of the site, which made it seem like the company was feeling increased pressure from other social media platforms like Twitter.  Patrico Robles, the article’s author, goes on to [...]