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Amid rumors that Twitter is considering pursuing another round of venture funding, the microblogging site's co-founder Evan Williams said his company has "a lot of money in the bank," and that its advertising efforts are paying off better than expected.

Twitter CEO Evan Williams is stepping down from the top job at the microblogging service to direct product strategy. Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo, a successful entrepreneur and former Googler, will assume CEO duties.

The top executives at some of the biggest internet companies on the planet -- as well as the hottest upstarts -- have joined the fight for net neutrality, the principle that broadband providers should not favor their own programming over competing content. Among the executives that signed a letter...

The Twitter microblogging revolution is about to get bigger -- or at least get bigger offices. The red-hot start-up just signed a deal to sublease roughly 31,000 square feet near the Yerba Buena Gardens park in Downtown San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

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...

MySpace founders have been pushed aside and there is speculation layoffs are coming. As Facebook and Twitter watch what's happening at MySpace, they should be worried and heed the warning of potential problems to come. Social-networking sites grow like weeds and, well, die like weeds...

Even though Web start-up Twitter has gone from 1.6 million to 32.1 million users in a year, CEO Evan Williams says it's "just getting started." "We think we can grow a long term sustainable valuable business here, and we're just getting started." Williams said in a CNBC interview today. "We're...

The only thing hotter than Twitter's internet service this year are rumors the company will be sold. Twitter founder Evan Williams said he will still be running Twitter in five years when asked by Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg. Williams and co-founder Biz Stone were...

Twitter is adding users fast. What it's not adding, though, is revenue. While it has become this year's internet darling, the company hasn't yet figured out how to pay next year's bills. Twitter may shed some light onto whether it can turn its customers into a source of cash when founders Evan...