TECH CRUNCH - May 1 - If Tinder is the solution to the spammy nature of Match.com, then Brian Ma’s new app Weave could be the solution to LinkedIn, helping professionals to connect with only the people that they want......
MASHABLE - May 2 - LinkedIn reported earnings of $0.38 per share on revenue of $473.2M for Q1, 2014. LinkedIn projected that it would generate $500-$505M in the upcoming quarter and $2.06-$2.08 billion in revenue for the full year. The......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 30 - A new anonymous app called Cloaq is making its App Store debut. The app hopes to differentiate itself by being even more secret by not requiring any personal information (email, phone number) in order......
MASHABLE - May 1 - App Links are Facebook's attempt to make it easy for developers to link to other apps from their own apps. Right now, this type of app-to-app linking, called mobile deep linking, exists, but the landscape......
MASHABLE - May 1 - The ad network, called the Audience Network, aims to make it easier for mobile developers to pick the appropriate ad formats that work for their app and letting the advertisers on Facebook better target ads......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 29 - MyHeritage's digital library of historical records has now passed the 5B milestone. MyHeritage competitor Ancestry currently features 13B records but MyHeritage says it is adding 5M records to its database every day and its......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 29 - Doximity, the largest professional network for the healthcare industry in the U.S., has received $54M in funding. The network counts roughly one in three doctors as members on the network. The latest financing will......
MASHABLE - Apr 30 - Twitter reported breaking even on an earnings per share basis on revenue of $250M for Q1. That represents 119% YOY increase. Twitter reported having 255 M monthly active users, up from 241M Q4, 2013. Twitter......
MASHABLE - Apr 30 - Instagram represents by far the best platform for marketers to interact with consumers, according to a recent study from Forrester Research. The engagement on Instagram is ~60 times higher than Facebook. As more brands flock......
CNET NEWS - Apr 25 - Twitter has announced the "Website Card" as a way for advertisers to showcase their website content inside tweets and point audiences to any page of their site. by Jennifer Van Grove See full article......
THE MOTLEY FOOL - Apr 25 - Brand Keys' latest study examined the customer engagement of the top 15 social networks. Facebook and Twitter were among the best SN for driving customer interaction and return users, followed by YouTube, LinkedIn,......
SILICON REPUBLIC - Apr 28 - The anonymous social networking app Secret is launching in Ireland, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The app has secured $10M in funding. Secret anonymously broadcasts a person’s thoughts to their friends list. See full......
MASHABLE - Apr 28 - Facebook officially launched Business Manager, a tool that lets marketers and agencies manage multiple campaigns via one interface. by Todd Wasserman See full article at Mashable See all posts on Facebook...
MASHABLE - Apr 25 - Vic Gundotra, the Google executive who heads Google , is leaving the company. Gundotra, a former Microsoft exec, joined Google in 2007 after taking a year off because of a non-compete clause in his contract with......
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 25 - It is rumored that Google will no longer be considered a product, but a platform, ending its competition with Facebook and Twitter. A Google representative has vehemently denied these claims. Google has apparently been......
MASHABLE - Apr 24 - A year and a half after Facebook first announced 1B monthly active users, it has now 1B monthly active users on mobile devices, too. Facebook's monthly active user total is now at 1.28B worldwide. Facebook......
MASHABLE - Apr 24 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has given Facebook the go-ahead to acquire Oculus VR. Facebook acquired Oculus, a virtual reality startup, for $2B in cash and stock. by Seth Fiegerman See full article at Mashable......
ENTREPRENEUR - Apr 23 - CrowdRise, a website which fuses social networking with charitable activism, has raised $23M in its third round of fundraising. Users can raise money for either themselves or for charity. After setting fiscal goals, the site......
MASHABLE - Apr 24 - Facebook CFO, David Ebersman, is stepping down. He will be replaced by former Zynga CFO David Wehner. Facebook posted Q1 revenues of $2.5B versus the consensus estimate of $2.36B. Earnings per share came in at......
MASHABLE - Apr 24 - FB has acquired Moves, a popular fitness tracking app, as part of its broader strategy to operate a set of standalone apps in addition to the flagship Facebook app. Moves has reportedly been downloaded ~4M......