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Ex-Twitter CEO says selfish capitalists will be 'shot in the revolution'
Ex-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted late Wednesday that "Me-first capitalists" would be the first ones "shot in the revolution." Jumping into a recent controversy over employee activism at tech companies...
Jack Dorsey doesn't earn as much as you'd think
Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey earned $68,506 in total compensation for 2015 after retaking the helm on July 1, the company disclosed in its annual proxy filing on Friday. Dorsey,...
Twitter names Jack Dorsey as permanent CEO
Twitter has named Jack Dorsey its permanent CEO. After weeks of discussion over whether the micro-blogging site would name Dorsey — who already has a full-time chief executive gig at...
Twitter set to welcome back Jack Dorsey as CEO -- for good
Fear not, Twitter investors — Jack is back, and this time it’s for good. The troubled microblogging site’s co-founder Jack Dorsey will become permanent chief executive after taking the helm...
Twitter eyes Intel president for CEO job
Twitter users might not be that familiar with Intel President Renée James — she only has about 2,000 followers and has tweeted exactly 14 times. But the search for a...
Twitter's 'kids' may need some supervision
Twitter is all about characters, but these two characters did more damage to the stock than any scathing hashtag could. Instead of Twitter’s Interim CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey and...
Speculation begins over Twitter's next CEO
Now that Twitter’s current interim CEO, Square co-founder Jack Dorsey, has all but taken himself out of continuing in the top slot over his confidential filing for a Square public...
Twitter trio mum on possible sale of company
SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Will Twitter put itself on the block? That’s a major question at Allen & Co.’s media conference here — and it’s a question those Twitter execs...
Ex-Twitter CEO becomes social darling in Cannes
Cannes, France — Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is wasting no time networking now that he’s footloose. The bespectacled former standup comedian was spotted rushing up and down the Croisette,...
Jack Dorsey would have to quit Square post to be Twitter CEO
Jack Dorsey would have to give up his post at Square if he’s to become CEO of Twitter. The company he helped found and now leads on an interim basis...
Twitter's departing CEO 'over the moon' about new features
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's lame-duck CEO Dick Costolo says he is leaving the company stocked with new features that will boost revenue and help make the short-messaging service useful to...
Twitter loses momentum thanks to a non-committal Jack Dorsey
Memo to Jack Dorsey: come back to earth before Twitter’s stock crashes into a mountain. Shares of Twitter soared more than 10 percent late Thursday on news that embattled CEO...
Techies believe billionaire's Twitter rant was a board ploy
Twitter’s board was too weak to oust CEO Dick Costolo — so it recruited a shareholder to do its dirty work, according to one theory reverberating around Silicon Valley on...
Shareholders thrilled Twitter CEO resigned
Feathers are flying at Twitter, and the CEO finally has flown the coop. Dick Costolo, who critics say has failed to sufficiently grow the microblogging site’s user base, will resign...
Billionaire blasts Twitter hours before shareholder meeting
Not only is Twitter “too hard to use,” the microblogging site is also “scary” and “lonely.” That’s the tough verdict from Chris Sacca, a 40-year-old California billionaire who has long...
Billionaire Twitter booster now its latest critic
How painful is it to be a Twitter investor these days? So bad even Chris Sacca is beginning to squawk. The billionaire venture capitalist — one of Twitter’s earliest and...
Twitter cracking down on 'revenge porn'
Twitter is cracking down on “revenge porn.” The microblogging site — whose CEO Dick Costolo recently admitted that Twitter “suck[s] at dealing with abuse” — updated its rules this week...
Can Twitter CEO Dick Costolo make his ‘Mark’?
Like all companies new to public markets, Twitter is having its growing pains for all to see. Right now, Wall Street is trying to decide if CEO Dick Costolo, at...
Embattled Twitter CEO sells $5M worth of stock
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo started the new year the same way he ended the last one — by selling stock. The social media chieftain unloaded more than $5 million worth...
Twitter's CEO faces intensified calls to step down
Tweety bird is getting hammered. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Friday continued to get dinged by critics calling for his scalp — the latest salvo coming from Harvard Business School...