Biz Stone

Twitter co-founder and CEO Biz Stone said Thursday that Rupert Murdoch's potential plan to block Google from searching New Corp.'s (NWS) websites is doomed to fail. Murdoch has accused Google (GOOG) of stealing content from his publications, which include The Wall Street Journal and the New York...

Why do you think Twitter matters? Why should I use Twitter? Will Twitter be around in five years? As I've become more involved using the online microblogging service this year, these are questions I'm often asked about Twitter. The answer to the first two questions is simple: because Twitter is...

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it does not plan to run advertisements on its website this year. This comes after a recent modification to the micro-blogging site's terms of service, which makes room for ads. Co-founder Biz Stone announced that the company has sufficient funding for the time...

TechCrunch reports that Twitter is about to sign a contract to take an investment of $50 million that would value the company at $1 billion. On a per-user basis, that valuation would make Twitter worth 1.5 times more than Facebook. And that would be a nice payday for the earlier Twitter...

Rapidly growing microblogging site Twitter might have found a way to generate revenue. The social media platform, which has been around for two years, has been criticized throughout its recent growth spurt for having no discernible business model. A change to the company's terms of use on Thursday,...

In a move that has to make Google somewhat nervous, Twitter has redesigned its homepage so that non-Twitter members can search topics from Twitter.com, just as they can at Google.com, Yahoo.com or Microsoft's Bing.com. "We're eager to see if encouraging a sense of wonder and discovery leads to a...

I ran into Twitter co-founder Biz Stone at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last week in Pasadena, California. After talking at length about why Twitter matters and how it'll succeed, I came away with this: It's probably too late for a tech giant to buy Twitter. "The truth is, we're not even...

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said his company, oft-criticized for not generating much revenue, will prove the nay-sayers wrong by "adding value." Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena, California Thursday, Stone elaborated more than he has publicly on the company's plans to...

With the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett Thursday, it was not difficult to notice that Twitter and Facebook are now the places where people gather when wanting to reminisce or reach out. "Stepped off a 10-hour flight to discover Twitter is essentially a wake for recently departed...

Two years ago, while at Portfolio.com, I was moved by my colleague's review of the Webby Awards -- the Oscars for the Internet. She was disappointed that, given the great democratic premise of the web, the ceremony was held on Wall Street. Silicon Valley and web stars alike ditched their t-shirts,...