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In a move to give itself more of a voice in an online conversation in which it largely gets lambasted, investment banking giant Goldman Sachs joined Twitter Thursday.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has rejected the IPO rumors and widely reported notion that the popular microblogging site is in talks to sell a 10% stake to JPMorgan Chase for $450 million -- which would have jacked up the site's valuation to $4.5 billion.

Google has teamed up with its newly acquired social-media-voice company, SayNow, and social network Twitter to set up a new service this weekend that enables Egyptians to tweet via voicemail, bypassing the country's Internet shutdown.

The stats for Black Friday 2010 are just now rolling in, and we have collected data from several sources to see how consumers shopped online and which brands received the most (and the least) attention on Twitter during Black Friday. PayPal tracked the consumer spending habits of shoppers from...

In its latest attempt to get users to spend more time on its website, Yahoo has overhauled its free email service with new features that debut Wednesday. Email will be twice as fast, with easier picture and video viewing and the ability to "tweet" directly from Yahoo email to Twitter.

Twitter made changes to keep the site stable during the World Cup onslaught and the odd California earthquake, which "caused inadvertent downtime as a result of. . .attempts to make changes." Is this a harbinger of future problems?

Several businesses have sprung forth thanks to Twitter's 140-character limit on status updates, or tweets. Twitter engineer Raffi Krikorian announced that this would all change over the next few months, in an apparent move to protect users from spam and malicious links.

When Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message, it embraced the gravitas of the milestone: "What hath God wrought?", he opined. When Neil Armstrong touched down on the moon, he pronounced it "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," as indeed it was. Now all of us can speak freely...

Twitter will start placing ads on its site starting today. This is the first time the four-year-old company is allowing ads on its microblogging site, an attempt to actually make some money off what has become a very popular activity for many. The ads will appear at the top of search results, much...

The streets of Caracas are crammed with three times as many cars as they can handle. And why not? Gas is cheaper in Venezuela than anywhere else on Earth. The consequence, of course, is nasty traffic, made only worse by potholes, police checkpoints and other impediments to smooth vehicular...