Ex-Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly joins Times Global Partners as CEO
16 Nov 2016
Rishi Jaitly, an alumnus of Princeton University, will be responsible for managing various strategic partnerships of Times Internet, including Uber, Airbnb, Coursera, Vice, Huffington Post, apart from Willow TV
After Jaitly, Twitter's India MD Parminder Singh quits
03 Nov 2016
Hard on the heels of Twitter's India head Rishi Jaitly, on Monday, Parminder Singh, the micro-blogging site's managing director for India, South East Asia, Middle East, and North Africa, also quit
Twitter India chief Rishi Jaitly quits, more heads may roll
02 Nov 2016
Jaitly, who helped popularise Twitter in India, would seem to be a casualty of the micro-blogging site’s global restructuring programme, as the company has failed to get new users and fallen behind Facebook, Google and Snapchat
Twitter lays off 9% staff
28 Oct 2016
Access to Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, many others hit by DDoS attack on net traffic monitoring firm
25 Oct 2016
Google, Salesforce, Microsoft eyeing Twitter: reports
24 Sep 2016
Several technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, have expressed interest in acquiring struggling social media giant
Twitterati abuzz about Jio using PM’s picture in ad campaign
03 Sep 2016
For almost eight hours on Friday morning Reliance, Mukesh Ambani and the prime minister were among the top trends on Twitter
Twitter suspends 235,000 accounts for supporting extremist causes
20 Aug 2016
Twitter on Thursday suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as the micro-blogging network continued to crack down on the use of its platform for extremist causes
Pizza Hut announces first pizza chatbot for “conversational ordering” via Twitter, Facebook
14 Jul 2016
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s account hacked
11 Jul 2016
32 mn Twitter passwords leaked
09 Jun 2016
Users tiring of 'Likes' and Tweets: study
08 Jun 2016
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