Garett Sloane
The Archive
Twitter may look to double IPO to $2B
Now this is operation fast and furious. Twitter is racing toward the year’s most eagerly awaited stock market debut with plans to start its roadshow for prospective investors in New...
'Fab' start-up slices 20% of staffers
It was a not-so-Fab a week for one of the city’s most watched tech start-ups. Fab.com fired about 80 people from its New York offices, in a purging of about...
Nasdaq’s Greifeld pitches Twitter for listing
There’s no retweet, no surrender for Bob Greifeld. Despite the apparent long odds against Nasdaq landing the much-coveted Twitter listing, CEO Greifeld was spotted at the micro-blogging company’s headquarters Friday...
Bankrupt firm jumps 700% after traders mistake it for Twitter
What a bunch of stock twits! Shares of Tweeter Home Entertainment, a Boston-based consumer electronics chain that filed for bankruptcy in 2007, soared Friday in a case of mistaken identity...
Could a Twitter founder miss out on his payday?
He’s stone cold silent. Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder and former chief executive, isn’t even name checked in the financial disclosure documents the company filed ahead of its market debut. In fact,...
Nearly 5 percent of Twitter users are spambots
Twitter admits it has a spam problem. The microblogging service, which released financial information publicly for the first time, said less than 5 percent of accounts are considered spam, or...
Twitter looking to raise $1 billion in IPO
Twitter took another step toward its much-anticipated initial public offering, unsealing financial documents that show it hopes to raise as much as $1 billion. The release of the documents puts...
Top Microsoft investors want Bill Gates out
The Steve Ballmer era is coming to an end at Microsoft, but that’s not enough for some investors who want a clean break with the past. For the first time,...
New iPhone sales lift Apple 4.5 percent
With the iPhone back in stock, Apple’s stock is back in action. Since the new iPhone 5s and 5c started selling Sept. 20 shares are up about 4.5 percent. Apple...
NYSE wooed Twitter listing from the start
In the contest for Twitter’s affections, the Big Board is counting on its long courtship. The New York Stock Exchange began wooing the microblogging service nearly two years ago, when...
Getting a handle on @Twitter branding
What’s in a Twitter name? Plenty, it turns out. As more and more corporations and celebrities look to acquire some of the most coveted real estate in social media circles...
Tweet love for that other Bieber
The simplest Twitter names can be a source of mass confusion. When your handle is @bieber, for instance, you receive a lot of unintended messages meant for a certain teen...
Amazon adds 'Mayday' help button to Kindle tablets
For Kindle Fire users, help is just a tap away. In an appeal to tablet newbies, the new Amazon Kindle Fire HDX boasts a “Mayday” button for users to connect...
Blackberry makes $4.7 billion deal
BlackBerry made for easy pickings. The once iconic mobile-phone maker struck a $4.7 billion deal to sell itself to a Canadian investor consortium led by Prem Watsa, aka the Canadian...
Apple sells 9M new iPhones in first 3 days
Apple has struck gold. The tech giant sold a whopping 9 million of its high-end iPhone 5s and less-expensive iPhone 5c in their opening weekend. That topped last year’s record,...
Wall Street working on Twitter's credit line
Call it tweet consolation! JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have nabbed lead roles on a planned revolving line of credit for Twitter ahead of the red-hot tech company’s much anticipated...
JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley win Twitter business
Call it tweet consolation! JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have nabbed lead roles on a planned revolving line of credit for Twitter ahead of the red-hot tech company’s much anticipated...
iPhone weekend sales estimates up to 8M
Two million-plus iPhone sales a day could keep critics away. That’s how fast the new iPhones are expected to fly off store shelves starting Friday, according to Wall Street analysts....
‘Grand Theft Auto’ breaks record
“Grand Theft Auto V” has pulled off the biggest video-game haul in history. Take-Two Interactive said the fifth installment of its violent franchise rang up $800 million in its first-day...
Morgan Stanley grilled by Twitter execs
Morgan Stanley may be losing its tech luster. The firm’s well-buffed reputation as the savviest tech banker in Silicon Valley was dented and dirtied by Twitter executives as the micro-blogging...