With the Facebook IPO right around the corner, the social media giant is starting to feel some pressure. Even with user base growth, revenue growth is slowing, and even with still-impressive revenue growth, profit growth isn’t showing the promise it …
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 …
DataSift, a software company focused on analyzing social media data, just raised $6 mn. The company revealed on its blog that the venture capital round was led by IA Ventures and GRP Partners. According to the statement, ‘DataSift is one …
Heading into this year, eMarketer predicted that Twitter would post 2012 revenues of around $250 mn, a gain of close to 100 percent YOY. Well, that may be a bit low. GroupM has published a white paper on the advertising …
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 …
Okay, now this makes sense to me. I’ve always believed that Instagram was a natural acquisition target for Twitter. So when Facebook announced it had dropped $1 bn on the mobile photo sharing app, I was blown away. It looked …
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, …
Several tech CEOs are on the hot seat, and Twitter’s skipper appears to be among them. Dick Costolo, according to Business Insider, has yet to prove that ‘Twitter is more monetizable than AIM or chat.’ Adding to the pressure is …
Twitter was born six years ago today. Since then, it has undergone a number of transformations, from a name-change to a heavy-duty revenue model. Here’s what we’re celebrating: 1. Twitter came into the world on March 21, 2006 as ‘Twttr’. …