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Twitter Confirms Funding; Reportedly $100M at $1B Valuation

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 28, 2009 - 6:00am.

San Francisco - Microblogging service Twitter on Friday confirmed that it has landed a "significant round of funding," which The Wall Street Journal reported was $100 million at a valuation of about $1 billion -- four times its valuation from earlier this year. The company said that investors included Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital.

WSJ: Twitter Close to Raising $100 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 24, 2009 - 6:01am.

New York - Twitter is close to raising as much as $100 million in new funding from as many as seven investors, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the deal. That is double the $50 million figure that several recent reports indicated the company was in the process of raising.

Slide Lands $50 Million for Online Photo Slideshow Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 22, 2008 - 8:58am.

San Francisco - Slide, the provider of an online photo slideshow service, has raised $50 million in a new financing round that values the company at more than $500 million, BusinessWeek reported. Investors in the round included Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price.