Friendstar's New Business StrategyAugust 5th, 2008 Friendstar is one of the early social networking sites which was overshadowed in recent times by mySpace and facebook. The company will announce Tuesday a new chief executive, Richard Kimber, the regional managing director of South Asia for Google and $20 million of new funding. Also, they are going to have a fresh look on Asia.
The Growth of Gmail Last Year (43%) is Major Concern for AOL and HotmailJanuary 15th, 2009 Google launched its Gmail service 4 yrs back after Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, and Windows Live Hotmail. But, it witnessed a serious growth in the US during last year.
Twitter Raises $15million Through Venture Capital May 23rd, 2008 Twitter has raised a new $15 million round of funding, following a bidding war by venture capitalists interested to get a slice of the micro-blogging start-up, according to a report from GigaOm. According to GiagaOm, a new investor is leading the round with existing investor, Union Square Ventures also participating in this round.
Twitter Acquires SummizeJuly 15th, 2008 Twitter has announced that it has acquired Summize, an interactive search tool and simultaneously launched its own search engine search.twitter.com. The new search tool has the exact same look, feel, and functionality of Summize, but with Twitter branding.
Twitter Gaining Speed but Still in the Early StageMay 1st, 2008 Twitter, the micro-blogging platform, has been in the news quite a bit lately (in particular for VC funding ). Year on year, Internet visits to Twitter are up 8 fold.
Amazon Invests in TwitterJune 25th, 2008 Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos is the latest investor in Internet communications firm Twitter, according to the company, as the much-watched firm announced its latest funding round in a blog post. San Franscisco-based Twitter, which runs a popular instant-messaging service.
Ask.com Acquired Dictionary.comJuly 6th, 2008 Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. Ask.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterActiveCorp, had announced the all-cash deal in mid-May.
A Close Look at TweetMic- New Addon Twitter App to Publish Audio Tweet for iPhoneMay 18th, 2009 You can create high quality audio recordings or "Tweetcasts" and publish them directly to Twitter with the help of new simple and intuitive addon app TweetMic. I would consider it a nice step to advance Social Networking one step ahead.
As opposed to the popular misconception that teens are the majority users for Twitter, lot of other people are also using Twitter. When the unique visitor hit is going down in US, Twitter’s hit improved significantly in the last few months. 20.1 million unique visitors in the U.S got into Twitter in June compared to 14 million of the previous month. The page views of Twitter hit 628 million, a 21 percent increase in comparison of the previous month. If you bring the global visitors into account then the number of unique visitors stands at 37 million. The above figure gives you the estimate for Twitter Website. Half of the visitor use desktop and mobile clients to access twitter.