MASHABLE - Apr 23 - Facebook launched FB Newswire, a Facebook page of hand-selected and journalist-verified news stories from across Facebook's platform. The key to FB Newswire is a partnership with Storyful, a news agency that aggregates news content shared......
CNET NEWS - Apr 20 - Facebook is getting ready to launch a mobile ad platform that will allow it to better challenge Google's AdMob. FB will unveil the new network during its F8 developer conference later this month in......
AFP - Apr 22 - VKontakte had accepted the resignation of its founder, Pavel Durov, after he announced earlier this month he was leaving and then apparently changed his mind. See full article at Enca.com See all posts on VKontakte...
GEEKWIRE - Apr 22 - Tencent is another tech conglomerate out of China that is hard to understand because it does so much. It offers an overwhelming mix of services, making it a serious threat to many U.S.-based companies. It......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 21 - Following the notable funding rounds for apps like Secret ($8.6M) and Whisper ($21M), newcomer Yik Yak has raised $1.5M for its chatting app, which controversially grew popular with school kids, leading to several bannings......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 21 - Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte.com, Russia’s top social network with ~100M users, is now out for good from the company, and is likely to start building a mobile social network this year. “I’m......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 18 - Chinese Twitter clone, Weibo, went public. Its shares were priced at $17, spiking 19% in its first day of trading to $20.24. Given a starting market capitalization of $3.4B at its IPO price, Weibo......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 18 - Facebook begins rolling out a new opt-in feature called Nearby Friends. It lets friends see approximately how far away they are from each others. It could get people spending more time with friends in......
FORBES - Apr 18 - ChannelPlace is a new B2B networking platform. It provides an online community for businesses in the IT and other high-tech industries to interact with one another. It utilizes an intelligent matchmaking algorithm to determine what......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 16 - Creative Labs is a new internal initiative at Facebook that’s playing more with products outside the core social networking site. It is about identifying other parts of Facebook that are grown up enough on......
RECODE.NET - Apr 17 - Twitter has revealed "app install” ads, a newish format that has been a giant hit for Facebook. They have been in the works for some time, and have been showing up in users’ feeds for......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 15 - Twitter had a massive day in the markets, soaring ~11% following news that it has acquired Gnip. Twitter also picked up a key hire today: Google Maps guru Daniel Graf to help leads its......
CLICKZ - Apr 14 - HAW's customer acquisition campaign in Q4 2013 used Twitter's geo- and interest-targeting to reach couples in five markets. Promoted tweets offered $50 off dating experiences booked through the service. The company found that leads coming......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 14 - Facebook is looking at e-money services, including the ability for people to make peer-to-peer money transfers, using money that is stored on Facebook. Facebook has applied for an e-money license in Ireland as part......
MASHABLE - Apr 14 - Twitter's stock shot up by ~3% after the company announced that its CEO and two of its cofounders have no immediate plans to sell shares. The news comes just a few weeks before a major......
IRISH EXAMINER - Apr 15 - LinkedIn is seeking a new international headquarters in Dublin as it expands its overseas operations. LinkedIn employs ~450 people in Dublin and first opened an office in the city in 2010. Ireland’s corporate tax......
CNBC - Apr 15 - While Facebook has enjoyed exponential growth since 2004, and now boasts 1.23B users, the brand has recently come under criticism for losing its cool. Some teenagers are growing bored of the site. "For them it's......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 15 - Twitter has acquired Gnip, the social data provider. Gnip offers access to historical Twitter data, and the full Twitter data firehose, but it also offers APIs that provide data from other social networks including......
MORNING NEWS USA - Apr 13 - There are now ~974M Twitter accounts that currently exist. However, a recent study by Twopcharts has found that up to 44% of those users have never posted even a single tweet since their......
MARKETING INTERACTIVE - Apr 14 - 1. China’s 618M Internet users represent 45% of the country’s population 2. Qzone is China’s largest social network with 625M monthly active users. 3. WeChat has 355M monthly active users. 4. More than half......