Posts tagged Order Of Magnitude

Twitter to deliver “several billion tweets” an hour next year

Dec 28th

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In a note over the weekend in the U.K.’s Times of London, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone revealed some impressive stats for next year. The company will handle 1 billion search queries a day and deliver “several billion tweets” an hour in 2010. He also said that by the time the Iranian elections happened [...]

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80legs sets its web crawler free (via postie)

Dec 22nd

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When 80legs launched its web crawling service at DEMO (a conference co-produced by VentureBeat) last fall, chief executive Shion Deysarkar told me he wanted to place tools previously exclusive to web giants within the reach of smaller companies, so that someone could, for example, build their own “mini-Google.” Now he’s taking that Â philosophy [...]

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Facebook co-founder’s Asana raises $9M from Benchmark, Andreessen-Horowitz

Nov 24th

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Asana, the productivity management startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Muskovitz and lead engineer Justin Rosenstein, has raked in $9 million from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz.
Asana is probably one of the more anticipated startups in Silicon Valley right now. Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes founded Facebook together during college at Harvard University. Rosenstein was another [...]