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TwitterTwitter apparently will go public sometime early next year. Analysts have put its value at more than $10 billion. Twitter management and its bankers ought to be concerned that shares will be...
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TwitterIt did not take long for Pope Francis to rise to the top of Twitter followers among the world’s leaders. By at least one measure, he has passed even President Obama. The new pope has 8...
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courtesy of Facebook Inc.It is enough money to buy up most of the residential property on Museum Mile, a northern part of New York’s Fifth Avenue, or every Ford ever built? That won’t happen, but...
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TwitterRegularly, marketers debate whether advertising on social media can be a hazard. Ads on Twitter and Facebook can be mocked by members. Despite the chance for exposure to what may be millions...
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TwitterOne of the tactics Twitter has adopted to increase its ad revenue is to put sponsored tweets among the normal tweets in people’s Twitter feeds. The tactic has backfired to a great extent, as...
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Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsMark Zuckerberg might have had a tough time at the first annual Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shareholder meeting this week, but he is learning to do the greatest...
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ThinkstockWhat happens when the last person joins a long-lasting trend? Chances are high that the trend is ending. We are not going to dare call a peak in Twitter here, but the notion that Warren...
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thinkstockIn an effort to boost the amount of time users spend on its website, privately held Twitter is reportedly negotiating with Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) and Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) for...
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The conventional wisdom says that China has no (or very few) users of social media sites like Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter. But that wisdom may be off the mark. Internet research firm...
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StockTwits, a financial communications company, was founded in 2008. The company’s signal achievement is the creation of the so-called “cashtag” — $TICKER. When a user clicks on the cashtag...
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The estimated 300 million Twitter users are not having many exchanges today. Just six weeks after another outage, users have today begun experiencing another outage where they are unable to read...
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courtesy Facebook Inc.According to the latest data from advertising research firm TBG Digital, advertising is doing just fine for Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). The rates advertisers are paying for...
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At an investor conference today, the CEO of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) said that data-only subscription plans for wireless networks are “inevitable” as wireless revenues shift more heavily to data...
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SINA Corp. (NASDAQ: SINA) is surging this morning after the company’s user base reached the 300 million registered user mark last quarter. The company’s Weibo microblogging site (A Chinese...
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GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) is taking it on the chin this morning because the company has sold another secondary offering of common shares so that it can go out and buy more portfolio...
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