Private secondary trading platform SecondMarket has revealed its Q1 2012 results. Many of the same charts are available, although the company has added the community banking sector results, reflecting its entry into this new space. Here’s what you need to …
Now that Facebook has acquired Instagram, the pressure is on other high-profile tech and social media companies to acquire their own ‘cool’ companies. And that means that interest is turning to Pinterest. Although it’s not as big as Instagram (in …
What would you pay for some of the hottest start-ups on the web? Following the $1 bn acquisition of Instagram, only two years old, by Facebook, everyone is trying to figure out which company will get acquired at an insane …
I seriously can’t wrap my head around this. The last implied valuation we saw for Twitter was around $10 bn – about six months ago. Now, the latest implied valuation for Pinterest is out, and it’s downright absurd. The photo-sharing …
What ever happened to Foursquare? Back in 2009, Business Insider reports, the check-in app was ‘the most exciting social network since Facebook, and one of the first devoted entirely to the mobile platform. That was then. This is now. Foursquare …
Who’s getting all the love in the press? In the intensively competitive social media sector, you’d think it’s Facebook. Well, brace yourself: Twitter is in the lead and pulling further ahead. According to AllTwitter, the microblogging service picked up 55 …
Well, that didn’t take long. Pinterest, the hot online photo-sharing site, has become the third most popular social media platform in the US, following Facebook and Twitter, reports Mashable. Pinterest scored 21.5 mn in the week ending January 28, 2012, …
Pinterest just keeps getting bigger. The social media sensation posted traffic growth of 52 percent from January to February this year – from 11.7 mn monthly unique users to 17.8 mn. In December, it had only 7.5 mn, according to …
Google has never been able to figure out the social media space, but it’s always been good at figuring out acquisitions. Pinterest has burst onto the scene, and it already has a sky-high valuation. Meanwhile, Google has an absurd amount …
Why do I love the UK today? Well, the country’s top interests on Pinterest are venture capital, blogging resources, crafts (don’t care about that one), web stats/analytics and SEO/marketing. These are the things I like on Pinterest, too! See for …