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Technology & Science

Jul. 14, 2009

Twitter Snags Google Lawyer As Its General Counsel

San Francisco-based Twitter Inc., the fast-growing and increasingly prominent micro-blogging service, has reached into Google Inc.'s stable of in-house lawyers for its general counsel.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN JOSE - San Francisco-based Twitter Inc., the fast-growing and increasingly prominent micro-blogging service, has reached into Google Inc.'s stable of in-house lawyers for its general counsel.

Alexander Macgillivray, who has spent more than four years as Google's senior product and intellectual property counsel, confirmed his departure from the Mountain View-based search engine and impending arrival ...

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