Ingrid Lunden
Feb 14, 2011 11:44 AM
INQ and HTC may be launching “Facebook phones” this year, but another social brand growing at lightning speed will not be taking that route, at least for now. In a keynote speech today at the Mobile World Congress, Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo said that although 40 percent of all of…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Oct 4, 2010 2:54 PM
Twitter COO Dick Costolo will take over as CEO, the company just announced, as current CEO Evan Williams steps aside in order to be “completely focused on product strategy.” The news is a surprise; in an interview just last week with my colleague Staci D. Kramer, Costolo gave no hints…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 27, 2010 5:15 PM
I spent a little time on a trip to Beverly Hills interviewing a stand-up comic, a human Magic 8 Ball and a guy with one of the hottest—and hardest—jobs around. All in one person. That would be Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter, who sat down with me after his keynote…
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David Kaplan
Jun 8, 2010 9:18 AM
Twitter COO Dick Costolo kicked off day two of Internet Week NY and the CM Summit by talking about what Twitter—which he says now has 190 million monthly users—will offer to third parties and what it won’t. Now that it has added location services and “promoted tweets,” Costolo told Federated…
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David Kaplan
Apr 13, 2010 1:41 PM
With Twitter’s big announcement of how it plans to make money with Promoted Tweets out of the way, the micro-blogging service’s COO Dick Costolo took the stage at the Ad Age Digital Conference to sell the idea. “We needed to launch a platform that went everywhere tweets worked, such as…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 2, 2009 2:27 PM
Update: Twitter confirms that Costolo starts as COO next week. From a Twitter spokeswoman: “He’s a long time friend of Ev and Biz, so clearly they trust and respect the work that he’s done and look forward to working with him here at Twitter HQ.” Original: Looks like Twitter is…
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