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Twitter Acquires Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo

Allison Stadd — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:00:12 +0000

Twitter announced yesterday afternoon that it has acquired a little-known scalable computing startup called Ubalo.

Founded in 2011, Palo Alto-based Ubalo simplifies large-scale computing, enabling its users to write just the code they need for analysis or processing without worrying about the complexities of integration and scaling.

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Twitter Acquires Hotspots.io For Social Media Analytics and Data Team

Mary C. Long — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:30:57 +0000

In what’s being called an aqui-hire, Twitter has just acquired social media analytics and data company, Hotspots.io. The Hotspots.io team, who are now part of Twitter’s “revenue engineering team,” includes Matt Huang, Alexander Spicer and Ashutosh Singhal.
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Twitter Acquires Online Security Firm Dasient To Beef Up Malware Protection

Shea Bennett — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:00:16 +0000

In a bid to strengthen its resolve against malware and other malicious attacks, Twitter has acquired Dasient, an internet security company founded by ex-Google staffers Neil Daswani, Shariq Rizvi and Ameet Ranadive, for an undisclosed sum.

The move appears to be largely a talent purchase, and Dasient will be bringing their “technology, tools, and team” to the revenue engineering team at Twitter, effective immediately.

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