Twitter Completes Final Round of Funding

It’s being reported that Twitter has just completed the final round of investor funding, with sources familiar to the situation sharing that the company raised over $200 million on a $3.7 billion valuation. Twitter later confirmed this report. (via AllThingsD)

Eugene O'Rourke

Eugene O’Rourke is recognized as one of the top 40 executives under the age of 40 by the Jacksonville Business Journal, marketing executive of the year by the Best in Biz awards, recipient of the BizTech Innovation award, and several Horizon Interactive Media awards.

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Best Social Platform for Marketers?

Eugene O'Rourke
June 3, 2010

Each social platform yields different advantages – from customer communication and brand recognition to increased traffic to your site. CMO.com and 97th Floor created a graphic (see below) for an…

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Verizon Agrees to Purchase Yahoo for $4.83 Billion

Eugene O'Rourke
July 31, 2016

Yahoo has agreed to sell its core business to Verizon for $4.83 billion. As part of the deal, Verizon will acquire Yahoo’s search, mail, instant messaging services, ad platform, and a few real estate holdings. The move puts Verizon behind Google and Facebook in the U.S. digital ad segment, with a total share of 4.5%.

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About.me Out of Beta

Eugene O'Rourke
January 2, 2011

About.me, a new service that enables users to create personal profile pages is now out of beta and open to everyone. Users create simple bios, link to various social network…

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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble Form Partnership

Eugene O'Rourke
May 4, 2012

On Monday, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced a new partnership that will leverage the digital Nook and college businesses into a new subsidiary, and the invest of $300 million will give Microsoft a 17% stake in the new business. Read more from the full press release below.

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