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Can Ticketmaster’s former CEO help Twitter make big bucks?

By hiring Nathan Hubbard, Twitter seeks to make revenue.

Twitter has hired the former CEO of Ticketmaster. What can the head of a ticketing behemoth offer a social media company that’s yet to go public? In a word — commerce. Ticketmaster’s Nathan Hubbard helped his old employer dominate online. So his new job could be to help Twitter turn a big user base into some dollar bills. Marketplace Tech reporter Queena Kim has the latest on the story.

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