May 31, 2011 8:00 AM
Build the product, nevermind the business model. That’s been the mantra for many a successful startup. TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth, who just sold his company to Twitter for a reported $40 million, had a “big fear” of efforts to “monetise users and drive them away”.
Posted In: Advertising, Companies, Twitter, tweetdeck
May 3, 2011 6:19 AM
Oft-rumoured lately, the reported sale of the TweetDeck Twitter client to Twitter itself now looks more likely, with both TechCrunch and Reuters reporting it will happen in the next few days. Single sources for each site say the price is up to $50 million in cash and stock.
Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Twitter, tweetdeck
Apr 18, 2011 4:30 PM
TweetDeck, which only two months ago was close to being acquired by Bill Gross’ UberMedia, is now in “advanced talks” to sell itself to Twitter for $50 million, according a WSJ report.
Feb 11, 2011 11:36 PM
Why is Bill Gross buying up services built on Twitter? The Idealab CEO talked about his belief in Twitter when I interviewed him recently at DLD in Munich, just after he acquired UberTwitter and renamed the company UberMedia. That closely followed the acquisition of EchoFon. Now TechCrunch reports that he’s…
Posted In: Advertising, Features, Tweets, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, RIM, BlackBerry, Twitter, bill gross, idealab, tweetdeck, ubermedia, ubertwitter
May 20, 2010 12:00 PM
Less than a year after taking a $2 million investment, desktop and mobile Twitter app Tweetdeck has gone back to its investors for a $3 million second round. Betaworks leads this round, just as it did last time. Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, The Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg and Howard Lindzon…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, accelerator group, betaworks, danny rimer, howard lindzon, roger ehrenberg, ron conway, tweetdeck
Sep 2, 2009 4:09 PM
Earlier in July news came out that Twitter desktop app Tweetdeck raised “several million dollars” in new funding. From an SEC document just filed, the London-based company has raised about $1.5 million of a $1.8 million debt raise. This follows a $300K seed round in January led by New York…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Twitter, tweetdeck
Jan 16, 2009 1:38 PM
Yesterday, Twitter received national attention after the first pics of the Hudson River plane crash were found on the microblogging site before traditional media had time to report it, so perhaps it’s only fitting that yet another Twitter add-on is saying today that it has raised a round of funding—even…
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