PR NEWSWIRE - Jan 23 - Baidu subsidiary Baidu Holdings Limited has entered into an agreement to purchase Renren's remaining stake in Huomi Holdings Inc. in Q1 2014. Renren operates a leading social networking platform in China. See full article......
INSIDE FACEBOOK - Jan 23 - According to a U.S. SEC filing, Facebook's Chieft Financial Officer, David Ebersman has sold 23,400 shares of Facebook stock. 11,700 shares were sold at $58.80 and 11,700 were sold at $56.37, totaling just over......
TELEGRAPH - Jan 24 - According to researchers at Princeton University, Facebook will lose 80% of its users within three years, comparing the social media giant to an infectious disease. The researchers used epidemiological models correlated to a decline in......
PRESS RELEASE - Jan 21 - Tapestry, the app that helps seniors connect to their family and friends online, has acquired ConnectAround, a social network for residents of active living retirement communities. ConnectAround was founded in 2011 and has a......
TECH CRUNCH - Jan 20 - WhatsApp has ~430M active users to date. But despite the influx of new competition from the likes of Line, WeChat, KakaoTalk and Snapchat, WhatsApp is avoiding advertising and continuing to request its users to......
NY TIMES - Jan 20 - Chinese Weixin allows smartphone users to send messages and share news, photos, videos and web links, much like WhatsApp. It has ~300 M users. Facebook may try to re-enter China but Weixin’s success has......
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - Jan 21 - Singapore and UK-based market research firm GlobalWebIndex claims Facebook’s decline among young people has been overstated. According to their study, Facebook is used by ~49% of 16 to 19-year-olds around the world on a monthly......
SNW INTERVIEW - Jan 21 - Subrah Iyar, CEO of Moxtra, has a fantastic past. He is the former CEO and founder of WebEx. He co-founded Moxtra, which is a collaboration suite built for mobile users. You have created an......
TECH CRUNCH - Jan 18 - Twitter’s VP of Product Michael Sippey is stepping into an advisory role at Twitter, then moving on to something else. Sippey has been at Twitter since 2012. He was previously at blog platform Six......
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STREET FIGHT MAG - Jan 16 - In a new report “The Future of Legacy Media”, research and consulting firm Borrell Associates has both good and bad news for old media (newspapers, TV, radio, magazines). Q: What would it take......
MARKETWATCH - Jan 16 - LinkedIn may soon be coming to China. Derek Shen, the founder and former CEO of China’s Groupon-like service Nuomi.com, is the new VP of LinkedIn China. LinkedIn currently has ~4M members in China despite having......
TECH CRUNCH - Jan 14 - Yandex is launching a social search feature that will serve Yandex visitors related, real-time public posts from Facebook alongside other search results. Yandex, which accounts for around 60% of all searches in Russia, will......
MEEDIA.DE - Jan 14 - ~150K conferences and seminars are promoted on Xing. This is the reason the professional social network is launching it's own event app that will inform users about upcoming events. See full article at Meedia.de See......
SNW - Jan 13 - Finance Degree Center's latest infographic summarizes what you should know before investing in Facebook. The stocks has been up and down and many beleive Facebook is extremely overvalued. See the P/E ratio in this infographic......
THE VERGE - Jan 13 - Link-sharing service Branch and sister service Potluck will be acquired by Facebook for ~$15M. Most recently, Branch launched Potluck for iPhone, a news app that serves up bite-sized news clips users can talk about......
TELECOMPAPER - Jan 13 - Korean social network Cyworld will close its international service next month as it fails to compete against global competitors but will continue to offer Cyworld's domestic service. The company launched international services in 7 languages......
SOCIAL BARREL - Jan 12 - One of the most effective ads in social media right now are native-social ads, ads that are incorporated within the social stream, like the ads that appear in Facebook’s News Feed. It's expected that......
VENTURE BEAT - Jan 11 - Path, the maker of a private social network for closest friends and family, has raised $25M in a 3rd round of funding. The new is Indonesia’s Bakrie Global Group. The total amount raised is......
SOCIAL BARREL - Jan 11 - Q3 2013 saw mobile taking ~50%of its total ad revenues. In 2014 mobile is expected to continue to become a force in Facebook advertising. According to the Nothing But ‘Net report by JP Morgan,......