Thought your “Moments” were going to be ad free? Think again. Twitter isn’t wasting any time trying to cash in on its latest product, saying Friday that it’s bringing advertising to its “Moments” feature this weekend. The first “Promoted Moments” campaign, scheduled to go up Sunday, will be for the upcoming Rocky sequel called “Creed.” …

Talk about a nice gesture. Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted Thursday that he’s giving a third of his stock away — “exactly 1 percent” — to Twitter employees “to reinvest directly in our people.” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that he’s giving a third of his company shares to its employees. Mike Blake/Reuters/Corbis Twitter’s stock on Thursday closed …

Prime time is coming for Amazon. The Seattle-based Internet retailer on Thursday reported a surprise profit for the third-quarter as sales jumped 23 percent. The report pleased investors, who pushed the company’s shares to an all-time high in after-hours trading. There’s no mystery why Amazon’s business keeps growing. The company keeps finding ways to rope in customers and give them …

Enlarge ImageThe future is here! October 21, 2015, is “Back to the Future Day.” Universal Pictures Never before have we been so nostalgic for something that never happened. For the better part of three decades, fans of the “Back to the Future” movie trilogy have eagerly waited for October 21, 2015 — today! — to celebrate a movie that wistfully …

Enlarge ImageTwitter is trying to make it easy for you to survey your followers. Twitter Question: Will polls attract more people to Twitter? That’s what the San Francisco-based social network hopes. On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it will soon allow users to create their own polls to let the public weigh in on the topics most important to them. Users …

A San Francisco judge has ordered five employees of wearable-device maker Fitbit to return confidential information they took before leaving rival Jawbone, a legal victory in a series of lawsuits that claim Fitbit stole its trade secrets by poaching employees. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn issued a preliminary injunction Thursday, ruling that Jawbone would likely win its claim …

Twitter has named former Google business chief Omid Kordestani as the social network’s new chairman. James Martin/CNET It didn’t take long for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to find someone to replace him as chairman. The social network named Omid Kordestani, Google’s former chief business officer, as its new executive chairman, Dorsey announced in a series of tweets Wednesday. Kordestani’s responsibilities …

While political pundits gave former First Lady Hillary Clinton the victory in the first Democratic presidential debate, her main challenger, Bernie Sanders, was the clear winner on social media. The Vermont senator was the most mentioned candidate on Facebook and Twitter, according to social media analysis platforms Wayin and Brandwatch. He also was the most searched candidate on Google by …

Talk about getting the royal treatment. Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is now the proud owner of more than 5 percent of Twitter shares, worth about $1 billion. That investment could be seen as a show of confidence from the prince, who previously said he didn’t think Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey should be named CEO. Dorsey is also chief …

Jack Dorsey (left) and Evan Williams (right) at the New York Stock Exchange for Twitter’s IPO in 2013. Williams says the two are getting along. LAN/Corbis Ev Williams is smoothing things over with fellow Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Just two days after Dorsey was brought back for a second stint as Twitter’s CEO, Williams called him the “best choice” to …