Tag: DICKCOSTOLO

In a big personnel move at Twitter, co-founder Evan Williams is stepping down as CEO. @ev has been one of the faces of Twitter, along with Biz Stone, but he's ready to focus more on product development and hand the reins of Twitter over to COO Dick Costolo. The change makes a lot of sense: Ev didn't get into Twitter to monetize, he got into Twitter to build something cool. Costolo has done a ...

Twitter is one of those build-a-great-service then figure-out-how-to-make-money-later startups. We've seen many companies try this strategy lately, with some succeeding and some failing. Evan Williams, one of Twitter's three co-founders (with Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone), has been its CEO for the last two years since Jack Dorsey stepped aside to take up a role at e-commerce startup Square. Dick ...

There's a whole pile of RSS-to-Email services out there, but if anyone can break into the market it's FeedBurner, and to that end they've launched FeedBurner Email. It's a new service for publishers that lets readers get updates in their e-mail inbox rather than a feed reader. FeedBurner founder Dick Costolo says it's "largely 'brandless,'" meaning the e-mails that arrive don't look like ...