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Square CEO Jack Dorsey scales back at Twitter
By Laurie Segall @CNNMoneyTech October 9, 2012: 1:04 PM ET Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is once again stepping back from day-to-day involvement with the company. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Jack Dorsey is back to just one full-time job. Twitter's once-exiled co-founder, who returned ... Read more »
Twitter's Jack Dorsey eyes New York mayor's job
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says he wants to move to New York someday, run for mayor Dorsey lives in San Francisco and also is CEO of Square, the mobile-payments company (CNN) -- Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey lives in San Francisco, not New York. But the tech ... Read more »
Camilla Webster: Why Twitter and Square's Jack Dorsey Should Run New York City
When Jack Dorsey's obsession with trains and systems was revealed on 60 Minutes last week, I almost fell over, recalling that I became an admirer of his in the midst of the busiest train terminal in the universe: Grand Central. It was there that I first met Dorsey's baby, Square... Read more »
Jack Dorsey Talks Square and Wearable Devices
Mary Altaffer/Associated Press Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of Square, said he fancied devices that wrap around the wrist. Many technology enthusiasts have had their eye on Glass, Google’s monocle that looks like something out of Star Trek. But the Internet-connected eyewear doesn’t ... Read more »
Mark Reardon: Marcia Dorsey
Louis native — Jack Dorsey was profiled on 60 Minutes last night. We talk with Jack’s mom, Marcia Dorsey, also known as the “grandmother of Twitter.” ... Read more »
Bill Clinton leads conference in St. Louis
Clinton was joined by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, a St. Louis native, along with Moving Windmills founder William Kamkwamba, Women for Women International founder Zainab Salbi and clothing designer Kenneth Cole. Topics throughout the weekend will address a host of concerns: women's ... Read more »
Jack Dorsey tells '60 Minutes' Twitter and Square creation stories
Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco last year.. It might be hard to believe that emergency dispatchers in St. Louis were the inspiration for Twitter, but that's exactly the case, Jack Dorsey told "60 Minutes" recently. This Sunday... Read more »
Why Jack Dorsey based Square in San Francisco instead of New York City
Jack Dorsey wanted to base his tech start-up, Square, in New York City — but he was in a hurry. The 36-year-old Twitter co-founder said he changed his plan and based the payments platform in San Francisco because access to engineering talent was easier out West — and he wanted to build ... Read more »
Twitter CEO lobbied against exiling Dorsey in 2008: investor
SAN FRANCISCO | Fri Nov 2, 2012 6:15pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter CEO Dick Costolo lobbied against exiling Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey in a 2008 power struggle, according to an early investor who shed new light on the management turmoil that for years roiled one of Silicon ... Read more »
Finding Fault With JPMorgan's Directors
There had been interest from Jack Dorsey, the Twitter co-founder. “After talking a while in front of a campfire over drinks one night, Dorsey and Twitter’s then chief financial officer, Ali Rowghani, proposed to Systrom what they considered a formal offer to buy Instagram. The ... Read more »
Twitter co-founder says more techy leaders needed
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey thinks there needs to be more leaders who understand how to use technology. Speaking at a New York City campaign event for a local political hopeful Wednesday, Dorsey said more leaders are needed who get technology — and know how to ... Read more »
Square Payments Go Live In 7,000 Starbucks Locations
Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) is now officially accepting mobile payments through Square, the rising star of Silicon Valley startup culture led by Twitter co-founder and recent media darling Jack Dorsey. Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) is now officially accepting mobile payments through Square ... Read more »
Square Steps Into Canada: Jack Dorsey's Global Payments Service Goes International
The announcement comes after a short period of rapid growth for the young San Francisco-based start-up founded by Silicon Valley wunderkind Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Following a hefty stamp of approval from the coffee giant Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX), the company went on to raise ... Read more »
Four lessons from a single successful tweet
Among the two I noticed right away were Jack Dorsey ( @Jack ), the creator of Twitter, and Nick Kristof ( @NickKristof ), the New York Times columnist I wrote a CNET post about in April. Having accounts with more than three million followers between them share your tweet is ... Read more »
Twitter co-founder, mayor of NYC? – CNN Political Ticker
(CNN) - Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is based in San Francisco, but has said being mayor of New York City would be his dream job, The "desire to be mayor is more of an aspirational kind, or raising the bar of how I should be thinking," Dorsey said on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper. " ... Read more »
Al Gore and Bono invest in Biz Stone's mystery startup
The Twitter co-founder's new company, Jelly, closes its first round of funding with a celebrity-studded group of investors, including tech notables like Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman and Evan Williams. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has picked up some interesting celebrity investors for his ... Read more »
If You Can’t Afford $605K For Coffee With Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey’s Charity Auction Is At $5K With Fou...
If the “Cook Experience” is a bit too rich for your blood, then you might be interested in hanging out with Twitter co-founder and Square CEO, Jack Dorsey. His recent auction, benefitting BUILD.org, gets you a full-on lunch with the man at Square’s office in San Francisco. Whereas Cook’s ... Read more »
Jack Dorsey's Parents Want to Be Verified on Twitter
If you don't have a verified account on Twitter, don't feel too bad: neither do Jack Dorsey's parents. The Twitter co-founder's parents Tim and Marcia Dorsey tweeted this week that they would like to be verified on the service. We're not sure why they didn't go to Jack directly. ... Read more »
Twitter's Jack Dorsey on entrepreneurship
Jack Dorsey, center, attends the Clinton Global Initiative University event at Washington University. / Washington University in St. Louis (MoneyWatch) Over 1,200 students attended the Clinton Global Initiative University event this weekend at Washington University in St. Louis to "make ... Read more »
Jack Dorsey Fights Robots In His Own Unauthorized Comic Book
He might not be bulletproof, but simultaneously running Twitter and Square qualifies Jack Dorsey as a superhero. This week a new unauthorized comic book about him was released, called “Jack Dorsey: Co-Founder of Twitter #1″. Check out these page scans posted by Comic Book ... Read more »
