Just so you know there really is no essential difference between Facebook and the early days AOL. They are both limited, in that each has developed a community and has limited growth potential. Even with developer support, apps and such, the Facebook idea has an expiration date. Google on the other hand has no scope, [...]
Facebook has its own version of LinkedIn, Branchout. Branchout’s growth in this past month of January 2011 has been nothing short of phenomenal. The Facebook app was able to record a growth from 10,000 to a whole 250,000 monthly users. The company’s CEO Rick Marini was interviewed about this explosive growth at the TCTV studio. [...]
The fourth quarter of 2010 was a good one for the Android family. The quarter was the first time ever the Android smartphones out did its competitors in shipments. According to Canalys, a research company, even the longtime champion Nokia was overtaken by Android. Of course the Android OS was expected to be leader sometime. [...]
President Obama recently announced a new initiative that is part of a White House effort to promote entrepreneurship and job creation. The Startup America Partnership will encourage private sector investment in startups which will lead to job creation. This new partnership will be partly funded by the Case Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation. Steve Case [...]
Being an entrepreneur is all about being able to move from one business idea to another when one simply does not work anymore. This is according to Jason Calacanis an entrepreneur and a blogger who was speaking at the Digital Life Design Conference in Munich. Calacanis is the founder of Mahalo which was launched back [...]
There is a change at the helm of CrowdStar, a social game company. The current CEO Niren Hiro will be stepping down to pave way for Peter Relan who is the Executive Chairman at the company. According to Relan, Hiro’s departure was an amicable parting. He added that the two parties agreed on the larger [...]
Foodspotting, a location based food discovery startup, will be celebrating its first anniversary on the 15th of January. Well the celebration will be all the merrier as the startup has landed $3 million in a series A funding from BlueRun Ventures. The other investors who raised $750 thousand in the seed round will also be [...]
The past few weeks have seen Quora record some impressive growth. We recently wrote on how the sudden increase had been overwhelming for the site. Quora is a complex site and making changes so as to accommodate many users is no mean task. The other problem that the sudden growth has brought about is the [...]
AdMob has grown tremendously standing at a growth rate of 30 times in a span of three years only. Google says that the company which operates under its umbrella now gets 2 billion ad requests in a single day. Staggering! As of May 2010 the ad company was getting 10 million ad requests not in [...]
This past Christmas season was a merry one for OpenFeint, a mobile gaming platform. The company reported that on Christmas Day alone, it got over 450,000 new users. This figure represents a 184 percent rise over its day to day average. The Christmas Day of 2010 also goes down in record as OpenFeint’s largest day. [...]
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