Is Twitter Worth $3.7 Billion? Not in the Real World

That’s the value a $200 million venture investment led by Kleiner Perkins this week implies. But that means Twitter would have a price-to-sales ratio of 840 compared to Facebook’s 26 — or Google’s 8.7. And Twitter’s growth may…

Buzzword of the Week: Open Kimono

Forget political correctness. Business jargon is one of the last bastions of old-fashioned, rough and tumble crudity. Little surprise, then, that boardroom buzzwords sometimes veer into racism, sexism or — in the case of “open…

Buzzword of the Week: Open Kimono

Forget political correctness. Business jargon is one of the last bastions of old-fashioned, rough and tumble crudity. Little surprise, then, that boardroom buzzwords sometimes veer into racism, sexism or — in the case of “open…

White House Calls for Online ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’

The Obama administration has called for a “privacy bill of rights” to protect consumer privacy on the Internet.

The Commerce Department released an 88-page report that also proposed a Privacy Policy Office to coordinate online privacy issues, The Wal…

Facebook Revenue Could Hit $2 Billion in 2010

Facebook may generate revenue of about $2 billion for 2010, more than double its revenue from 2009, Bloomberg News reported without naming its sources. The social media giant will beat its 2010 estimate of $1.5 billion in revenue, after bringing in sal…