Twitter's Suitors Talk in Billions

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The new stealthy start-up intends to go much further with its artificial intelligence software than other companies have.

In this morning's Web roundup, newly funded start-up Glassdoor hopes to make its website the first place people think of when they're checking out a company or looking for a job by providing a worker's perspective on an employer. PlaySpan proves that some father-son projects are just way-better than others. And could Twitter really be worth $10 billion?

Andreessen Horowitz has become the first venture firm to collect all four of the highest-valued (and most hyped?) privately held social-media companies around.

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Shares of Internet bandwidth provider Akamai Networks (AKAM) are down $6.65, or 14%, at $41.33 after the company last night reported Q4 revenue and EPS ahead of estimates, but said that it expected Q1 revenue to decline from Q4, missing analysts' estimates by a wide margin. Q4 revenue rose 20%, year [...]

Shares of Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) are up 80 cents, or 22%, at $4.36 after the company this morning reported Q4 revenue and earnings per share ahead of estimates. The stock is moving on heavy volume of 83 million shares, Q4 revenue rose 23%, year over year, to €4.86 billion, beating the average [...]

Following a better-than-expected fiscal Q2 last night by Cisco Systems (CSCO), there's a good deal of concern on the Street that Cisco has entered a new, tougher chapter in its battle with competitors such as Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Juniper Networks (JNPR) in the routing and switching market. Cisco forecast the current [...]

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who started off the morning musing on his model for sales of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone at Verizon Communications (VZ), this afternoon reports that he and his associates trolled the lines of people in queue to get one at stores in New York and Minneapolis, and spoke [...]

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