Two small—but noteworthy—acquisitions for Thing Labs, the company behind Facebook and Twitter web client Brizzly: Thing Labs has purchased Wikirank, a tool that let users visualize and compare the most popular topics on Wikipedia, and is also announcing the purchase of Twitter iPhone client Birdfeed. Thing Labs has added some…

Not to be left out of the Twitter partnership spree, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is set to announce a deal with Twitter this evening to integrate the microblogging service across its properties worldwide. Yahoo users will now be able to access their personal Twitter feeds and update their Twitter status on…

Twitter has hired Ali Rowghani, the CFO of Pixar Animation Studios, as its new CFO. This is the site’s second big outside executive hire. In September, Twitter brought in former Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo as its chief operating officer. Among his responsibilities, Rowghani will have the enviable (?) task of…

Geoff Cook is the CEO of myYearbook, a social network built around meeting new people. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge and sold them to The Thomson Corporation. You can’t go an entire day without encountering Facebook and Twitter – even if you don’t have an account. Whether you ride…

HootSuite, which is behind the popular Twitter client, has raised $1.9 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company’s dashboard lets multiple people manage a single (or multiple) Twitter accounts and drives about 3.9 percent of all Tweets, according to Twitstat. That makes it the fifth most popular…

Not a new funding round as we reported earlier this morning. Twitter bought geolocation services startup Mixer Labs late last year, but the amount wasn’t disclosed: now in a new SEC filing it is slightly more clear: the filing says it “raised”  a relatively tiny round of $5.2 million in…

Twitter is putting some of its recent big funding round to work; the company has purchased Mixer Labs, which provides services to developers who want to make their products location-aware. In late August, Twitter said it would introduce an opt-in feature that would make it easier for users to add…

OneForty, the Twitter app directory and marketplace started by Twitter for Dummies author Laura Fitton, has raised $1.6 million in a funding round, according to an SEC filing. No word on who the funding comes from, although the filing lists Flybridge Capital Partners’ Jeffrey Bussgang as a director. The site,…

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Hutch Carpenter Position: Carpenter is the VP of product at Spigit, which sells social software to businesses; it has raised $14 million in funding Blog…

We already deliver all of our headlines and highlight breaking news through our @paidContent Twitter feed but those of you who spend time on paidContent.org may have noticed a new twist: pc buzz, a light-blue box in our main news feed highlighting tweets from our journalists. Using a special hashtag…

Less than a month after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched a microblogging service in China, the company has pulled the product off the market, among rampant accusations that it had blatantly copied a competitor’s own microblogging service. In a statement issued late last night, Microsoft said, “Because questions have been raised…

No, it’s not a premium account yet—those are supposedly still on track to launch by year-end—but Twitter is rolling out another feature aimed at making its service more business and company-friendly. Called “Contributors,” the feature helps differentiate between multiple users of a single Twitter account. If a company’s CMO tweets…

Hip hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons’ Global Grind has purchased CelebrityTweet.com, which aggregates Tweets from celebrities, including Simmons (pictured) himself. Global Grind features a wide array of coverage geared towards hip hop fans, including videos, a number of celebrity blogs and political news. The company says it will continue to maintain…

The rush to incorporate real-time status updates has even hit IAC’s Citysearch. Starting today, business owners will be able to create and manage their Twitter accounts directly from a Citysearch page. A restaurant, bar or health clubs’ most recent three tweets will show up alongside their ratings, reviews and other…

Say this for Google: The company does not like to have its rivals grab all the attention. Less than a day after Facebook announced it would link up Facebook Connect across Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) properties, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced the integration of its own identity platform with Twitter. People will…

Only seven months after raising $800,000 in a first round, StockTwits—which lets investors track conversations about stocks on Twitter—has brought in another $3 million in funding. The round was led by Foundry Group; existing investor True Ventures also participated. Since May, when it announced its first round, StockTwits has announced…

Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, the latest stop on a talky tour of the UK.…

Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest “repeat out…

So how’s Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday… “Supposing I was to say to someone: ‘you can have my Twitter identity for…