TECH CRUNCH - Aug 26 - The new countries include: Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Portugal. Advertising is a major source of its revenue. In Q2 2014, Twitter reported total......
CISCO - May 27 - Niche social networks are becoming more prevalent with a focus on meaningful content and collaboration. Petition site, Change.org has 70M users worldwide posting 30K new petitions monthly. The site adds 3M new users every month......
TECH CRUNCH - May 27 - Start up social network, Ku, helps users post creative status updates though a series of question prompts. The updates are modeled around Haiku poetry. Once finished, users have the option to add a doodle,......
SILICONBEAT – May 27 – According to eMarketer, Twitter's growth will slow in the U.S. and Europe, but will continue to grow in Asia. Active users will increase by 24% this year, but that's down from 30% last year and......
GRUENDERSZENE – May 27 – Career network Xing has signed a deal with Lebenslauf.com to incorporate its resume services. Details were not officially announced, though the deal is rumored to be worth 6 figures. Thomas Bachem, Lebenslauf's founder, will continue......
TECH CRUNCH - May 28 - Twitter has signed a two-year $230M deal to integrate MoPub with Omnicon's programmatic ad purchasing product. Twitter will now be able to reach beyond its own userbase with this deal. Shares of the company......
CNBC - May 28 - Facebook has asked the European Commission to launch an antitrust review of its $16B acquisition of WhatsApp. The move is seen as pre-emptive, as the deal raises competition concerns in a number of EU countries......
TRUTOWER – May 27 – According to GlobalWebIndex, Tencent's WeChat is the fastest growing social network in the world. The app's userbase grew 1098% from Q1 '13 to Q1 '14 to nearly 400M. Its growth in India was 1774%. For......
FORBES - May 26 - LinkedIn now has over 5M members in China, an increase of ~1M since the launch of a simplified beta site on Feb 25. China leads the world in number of internet users and has attracted......
DAZEINFO - May 26 - Facebook mobile news feed ads have reached a 0.02% CTR for Q1 '14, while desktop CTR fell from 0.01% to 0.006%. ~77% of users accessed FB through a mobile device during the same quarter. Mobile......
INQUISITR – May 23 – The topic of social media and its impact on the daily lives of billions of people around the world is the subject of extensive research. The impact of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn has been both......
CORPCOMMS – May 23 – According to new research, 60% of Europeans visit Facebook at least once a month, with Spain the highest at 70%. YouTube was the second most visited site, with 50% of Europeans using the site, with......
TECH CRUNCH - May 21 - Four months after its U.S. only iOS launch, Secret has released its Android app and opened up internationally. The Android app adds separate feeds for content posted by friends, and a separate tab for......
NY TIMES - May 22 - Responding to privacy concerns, Facebook announced that it was giving a privacy checkup to its 1.28B users. New users will have their post initially set to be visible by friends only, and better explains......
PORTADA ONLINE – May 22 – Facebook and Publicis have announced a long-term advertising partnership with an estimated value of $500M. It's believe the deal will increase Publicis' access to Facebook's ad inventory, data, engineers, analysts, and Instagram. Facebook believes......
TECH CRUNCH – May 21 – Voycee, a new mobile-first social network startup, caters to the “right to be forgotten.” Each time a user posts an update or shares content, their previous post is automatically deleted. In a market where......
QUARTZ - May 21 - Twitter shares have halved in 2014, eliminating billions in market value. Numbers show the company's revenues are growing, but the company struggles to hold on to new users, even as they continue to evolve the......
MASHABLE - May 21 - LinkedIn has expanded on the Who's Viewed Your Profile section by showing how a user's profile ranks among co-workers and other users. The company hopes the rankings will incentivize users to be more active. Only......
FORBES – May 20 – Rising monetization of Sina's Weibo microblogging and social networking platform is driving the company's 42% YoY growth in net revenues. Q3 '13 net revenues were $197M, including $56M is from Weibo's advertising, $15.6M from non-advertising......
AGBEAT – May 21 – Connect6° is a bit like LinkedIn's Rapportive plugin, but more social oriented. It is a combination of PeopleDiscover and PeopleSearch, and displays a contact's professional details and helps find business prospects and job candidates. The......