Amazon.com Inc will live-stream games for the NFL this year, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday, marking a high-profile push by the online retailer to attract fans to its Prime shopping and video-playback club
Media company might be interested in acquiring the money-losing news service, reports say
Twitter has reported a $521.03 million (£358.65 million) net loss for trading in 2015 and, for the first time, no growth in its user numbers.
In its fourth quarter earnings, the social media platform reported a net loss of $90.24 million (£62.11 million) for the three months up to 31 December, 2015
Rumours about a possible acquisition of Twitter have started surfacing yet again. Earlier this week, Twitter’s shares rose by up to 4.8% as rumours of Google and Yahoo planning a potential buyout started surfacing.
I’m glad it isn’t only me, but today I’ve seen just a glimpse of the reaction to yesterday’s news. Twitter, which raised $1.8bn in a float just under a year ago, announced yesterday that it’s looking to raise a further $1.5bn through two bonds — one for five years, the other for seven.
It looks like Twitter is preparing to do some early Christmas shopping. Marking its first debt offering, the microblogging giant is selling $1.3 billion in convertible bonds, which will likely go to future investments and acquisitions. For the full story read MediaPost
About 62 per cent of Facebook’s ad revenue now comes from advertising on mobile devices
“Our strong financial and operating results for the second quarter show the continued momentum of our business,” said Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter
There is speculation on the death of Twitter, which usually centers on Wall Street sentiment like earnings (Twitter’s stock has been downgraded) and standard platform health metrics like new user growth rate, log-in frequency, and content engagement
social media investors are getting gun-shy in 2014, judging by substantial declines in the stock prices of big social media companies including Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
Twitter’s first-quarter revenues have leapt 119% to $250m (£149m), but the network’s user growth came below analysts expectations, causing its share price to fall overnight
Twitter’s first-quarter revenues have leapt 119% to $250m (£149m), but the network’s user growth came below analysts expectations, causing its share price to fall overnight
Indian Social Analytics Startup Simplify360 is reportedly being eyed by potential buyers such as Twitter, Adobe and even WPP
Social network expected to make more than £180m by the end of 2015, according to eMarketer report
We should not be side-tracked by the one-dimensional debate about whether newspapers will survive or not
Twitter floated at $26 spikes at $50 before slipping to $45 all in the space of 2 hours
Twitter floated at $26 spikes at $50 before slipping to $45 all in the space of 2 hours
Twitter has revealed plans to sell shares on the US stock market in Silicon Valley’s most highly anticipated flotation since Facebook went public last year. >> Twitter <<
Twitter on Monday confirmed that it will acquire mobile advertising exchange MoPub as it seeks to incorporate real-time bidding (RTB) into its own ad platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
