Blog Archives for the tag Jack Dorsey

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Square Employees Highlight Its Growing Pains On The Internet

Working for an ambitious, fast-growing startup is very, very tough. Working for digital payment company Square may be even more gruesome than very, very tough, if a good number of…

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The Merchants are What Makes Square so Special

I’m a pretty big fan of Square, the order processing dongle and app that lets anyone become a merchant. Around the Bay Area, it’s nearly impossible to find a cool…

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Happy 6th Birthday, Twitter

On the 21st of March 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first public tweet into the world (“just setting up my twttr”). Can you believe that was 6 years ago today?…

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Square Tries to Woo The Best With This Video

I would definitely consider 35 open positions to be a hiring spree, so let’s call it that. Square is on the lookout for the best talent on the planet in…

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Twitter Wants To Make The Service Easy For Everyone

Twitter showed us its plans to become the social network for global communication. The company has decided to focus on scaling back its look and feature set, and wants to…

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Turf Wars and Personality Conflicts at Twitter Explained

In a very open blog post about leaving Twitter, Adrien Cahen decided to discuss his time at the company as a front-end engineer. Cahen, known on Twitter as @gaarf, discussed…

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Twitter hires top Googler Karen Wickre

Karen Wickre, the Senior Media Liaison at Google for the last nine years has left Google and joined Twitter. Wickre held a very senior PR position at Google for a…

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Flipboard Is Going Online

We are big fans of Flipboard. In fact, we were the first to break the news when the iPad app known as “the world’s first social magazine” first launched. And today…