Friday, 28 March 2014

Facebook has over a billion monthly active users on its mobile app

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"Facebook followers could be forgiven for being fixated by the $2 billion deal to acquire the virtual reality company Oculus. But anot...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Oculus VR is the first billion dollar company to come from Kickstarter

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"Not even two years have passed since Oculus VR began a Kickstarter campaign to raise $250,000 for a better prototype of its virtual re...

Instagram has 200 million monthly active users

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"Today, we’re excited to share that the Instagram community has grown to more than 200 million Instagrammers capturing and sharing thei...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

WeChat had 355 million monthly active users in Q4 2013

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"Chinese web titan Tencent has just put out its Q4 2013 earnings report. Amidst the financial figures is the one number everyone wants ...

Global music streaming revenues exceeded $1 billion in 2013

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"The digital market has continued to diversify with revenues from subscription services, such as Deezer and Spotify, growing by 51.3 pe...
Monday, 17 March 2014

Weibo has 129 million active monthly users

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"According to the IPO documents, Weibo pulled in revenues of $188.3 million in 2013. Like its U.S. counterpart Twitter, however, the co...

42% of adults in the UK start activities on one device and finish on another

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"Facebook research has found that 42 per cent of adults start activities on one device and finish on another, suggesting device-switchi...
Friday, 14 March 2014

Tweets with photos get 35% more re-tweets

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"So, the most effective Tweet features across all the verified accounts we looked at are: Photos average a 35% boost in Retweets Vide...

Twitter took $665 million in ad revenue in 2013

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"Total ad revenue generated by Twitter increased 110% to $664.9m in the year to 31 December. Earnings before interest, taxes, deprecia...

“If it rains in New York, people around the country become miserable”

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"For about 1.23 billion people on this planet, Facebook is there, in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, in joy as well a...

Demand for the final episode of True Detective crashed the HBO Go

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Due to overwhelmingly popular demand for #TrueDetective , we've been made aware of an issue affecting some users. Please try again soon...
Thursday, 13 March 2014

Angry Birds Toons episodes have had over 2 billion views

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Thank you to all the #AngryBirdsToons fans that helped us get to 2 billion views!  pic.twitter.com/sH9BcT3YP7 — Angry Birds (@AngryBirds)...