If you search for the term "personal assistant" on Twitter, you usually find one of three things: people complaining about how busy they are and wishing they had an assistant, people complaining about being unemployed and saying they'd love to get a job as a personal assistant, and people tweeting at celebrities, offering to work for them. ... MORE >
Mad Money host Jim Cramer is having a rough Friday - or as Zero Hedge would have it, a "nervous breakdown" - as evidenced by his Twitter feed, on which he's gone berserker, as the Nordic would have... MORE >
Late Friday night, according to his now-infamous Twitter feed, Keith Urbahn toasted the end of the work week with a tall mint julep on a warm Washington evening, made from mint from his garden and 1792 small-batch Kentucky bourbon. By the end of the weekend, Mr. Urbahn, 27, had become a minor celebrity in the media storm that surrounded the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, and his Twitter feed had jumped from a... MORE >
The specifics in the story of terrorist Osama Bin Laden's death are sure to make their way to light in the coming days, or possibly, hours. Yet, had you searched on Twitter, youwould have seen the story told long before President Obama even announced his press conference. Because some guy live-Tweeted it as it happened, without knowing he was doing... MORE >
As noted earlier, Congressman Anthony Weiner, the House of Representatives' master of the hashtag, (our favorite: #noneofthebigwords) live-tweeted President Barack Obama's address on the national... MORE >
How do you win a twitter fight? Outclass your opponent by writing about it for a well-respected English newspaper. Katie Roiphe doesn't tweet, she blogs for The Financial Times. The feminist critic finally weighed in on her so-called twitter feud with Ayelet Waldman, or, as she refers to Michael Chabon's wife, "Mrs.... MORE >
Plenty happens each day—how to keep up with it all? Time to test your memory! --What route (reported on this week by The Observer) may have just made an enterprising author... MORE >
Twitter, the Web's main repository of personal oversharing, political dissent and tasteless self-promotion, is donning a suit and tie. The little blue bird has been perching in a spartan temporary New York City space since September, searching for the perfect spot for its first New York City headquarters. Now The Observer has learned that it plans to sublease Facebook's former digs at 340 Madison Avenue, according to a source with knowledge of the... MORE >
“I am tweeting right now,” Neil Diamond said Monday night in a room at the Waldorf-Astoria. “I’m just trying to communicate with people. Young people, old people, all kinds of... MORE >
On a recent Friday night, a 22-year-old in his first year of living in New York hosted a late get-together in his Little Italy apartment. Everyone there would call it a good party, but it decidedly lacked a... MORE >
Not as funny as the guy who took Rahm Emanuel's Twitter handle, but the person behind Anthony Weiner's campaign Twitter is dusting it off for the first time since... MORE >
When news of JP Morgan's new $1.2 billion digital growth fund first broke two weeks ago, the NY Post reported that a significant portion of that capital was earmarked for investment in... MORE >
New York's biggest banks can't seem to get enough of the top Web properties, despite balooning valuations. This morning, JPMorgan filed regulatory papers on a new $1.22 billion digital growth fund, twice as large as reported last week. According to Scott Walker at Venture Capital Dispatch, the fund seems to be geared toward buying private shares, not investing directly, as Goldman Sachs did with... MORE >
It's been clear for a while now that Bill Gross and his UberMedia empire were on a collision course with Twitter. Gross has been buying up a number of third-party clients, bringing more and more of the activity on Twitter under his control, 20% by some... MORE >
Following an appearance before the aspiring capitalist titans at Harvard Business School alongside fellow venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang, Fred Wilson highlights some of the insights he acquired from the experience... MORE >
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