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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has denied rumours that the company is in talks with JP Morgan Chase & Co, dismissing reports that suggested the social networking company would sell the investment firm a 10% share of the company for a reported $450 million. Stone told Reutersthat the reports were “made up”, but did admit to discussions with Facebook “a couple of years ago … (but) nothing formal since and it’s mostly rumors all the time”....

A couple of days back,we reportedPiers Morgan would dedicate Tuesday’s instalment of his live CNN show to Twitter, inviting Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey to appear on the programme, as well as to celebrity Twitter users Alyssa Milano and Martha Stewart. Last night, the show aired, giving us more of an insight into how Twitter got to where it is today and how on-screen celebrities utilise the platform to interact with their fans....

Twitter hasannouncedthat it has closed a new, “significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the participation of several of our existing investors.” The company says that it will use the funds “to aggressively innovate, hire more great people and invest in international expansion.” Reports of a new funding round have been circulating for several weeks, and although nothing concrete has announced on the official valuation of the deal, areportfrom Kara Swisher on 21 July pegged it at $800m....

We knew thatit was happening, but now we have it from the source.Twitterhas confirmedtoday in a blog post that it has acquiredTweetDeck, though no price was mentioned. This acquisition is an important step forward for us. TweetDeck provides brands, publishers, marketers and others with a powerful platform to track all the real-time conversations they care about. In order to support this important constituency, we will continue to invest in the TweetDeck that users know and love....

Twitter has been gradually making inroads into the UK and Europe over the past six months, with its first Europe-based employeeannouncedback in May, andUK-specificpromoted trends, tweets and accounts thought to be arriving imminently. And today the social network has launched ablogdedicated to all-things Twitter in the UK. Theinaugural post, entitled ‘Follow your interests close to home’, begins: “From chefs to designers, from museums to the Downing Street Cat, there are more than 100 million people around the world using Twitter to follow their interests and instantly share ideas and information....