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Twitter Taps Goldman Banker As CFO, Boosts Mobile Ads

Twitter announced Tuesday that it’s hired a former Goldman Sachs managing director as its new CFO and that it’s expanding its mobile ad program as it continues to reconfigure itself for growth. Twitter’s (TWTR) new chief financial officer is Anthony Noto, who worked for Goldman Sachs ‘ (GS) Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking Group. Noto is also former CFO for the National Football League. Twitter said in a Tuesday regulatory filing

Nearly Half Of Teens Say Facebook Use Has Increased

Social network Facebook (FB) isn’t losing teens as quickly as some investors feared, according to survey results released by Forrester Research this week. The research firm queried 4,517 teens about their habits, and 46% said they’re using Facebook more often now than they did a year ago. About 57% of teens say they use Facebook more than competing networks such as Twitter (TWTR) and Google’s (GOOGL) Google+. Facebook is used with a higher

SolarWinds Acquires Sweden’s Pingdom, Website Tools

SolarWinds (SWI) on Wednesday said it’s agreed to buy Sweden-based Pingdom, whose customers for website performance monitoring tools are said to include Spotify, Microsoft (MSFT), Twitter (TWTR), eBay (EBAY) and GitHub. Terms were not disclosed. SolarWinds stock was up a fraction in afternoon trading in the stock market today. Stockholm-based Pingdom, founded in 2007, also provides Web application performance monitoring. Pingdom has 500,000