Silicon Alley Insider (Monday)

Twitter employees, naturally, use Twitter differently than the rest of us. But in what ways? Specifically, which apps do they use to tweet?

To find out, we used Twitter's API to analyze approximately 2,700 tweets from the Twitter st...

Silicon Alley Insider (Friday)

Less than five months after Google introduced Hotpot, its absurdly named answer to Yelp for restaurant reviews, it's dead.

At least as a brand. Instead, it will become just another feature of Google Places.

The idea is valid -- as p...

TechCrunch (Tuesday)
San Francisco City Supervisors are meeting today to vote on whether companies like Twitter moving into the city's blighted Tenderloin neighborhood will get a generous enough tax break to keep them from leaving the city. It's an important vote for all of Tw...

Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

Inc writer Max Chafin just published a profile of Etsy's founder and CEO Rob Kalin.

It's brutal.

Max's tone is fair, but the facts he gathered are quite damning.

Here's a few things we learned:

Kalin says idea of creatin...

Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

LivingSocial is expecting sales of $1 billion this year, but it will still trail far behind Groupon in the daily deals race.

According to a report at AllThingsD, the company's revenue is skyrocketing -- four months ago, LivingSocial expect...

TechCrunch (Monday)
Over the last couple years, there's been a huge surge in the suite of online services referred to collectively as 'local'. There's Facebook Places, which prompts users to check-in and claim deals. There's Google Places, which recently launched its own chec...