Tag archive for ‘platform’

LinkedIn Now Has 131 Million Users And 1 Million Groups

An IPO doesn’t always translate into sound financial and operational numbers but so far LinkedIn seems to be benefiting nicely from their recent IPO in June 2011.

Groupon Competitor BuyWithMe Lays Off 75% Of Staff

Groupon Competitor BuyWithMe Lays Off 75% Of Staff

The going has been getting tough for players in the daily deals space for some time, but it seems now things are really bad.

StumbleUpon Hits 20 Million Users

StumbleUpon Hits 20 Million Users

A few posts back I wrote about StumbleUpon’s plans to scale back entirely on some of its features and make the platform a leaner machine going forward.

Google+ Traffic Drops By Over 60%

Google+ Traffic Drops By Over 60%

Is Google Plus stuck in quicksand already? I am sure Google would certainly hope this isn’t the case giving the latest traffic stats coming out of Chitika.

Facebook Acquires Friend.ly

Facebook Acquires Friend.ly

Facebook has been very busy these past few months doing two things mostly—rolling out new features and buying stuff. The latest move is an acquisition and Facebook can finally boast ownership of a .LY domain name.

Google+ API Gets Search Capability

Google+ API Gets Search Capability

APIs are wonderful vehicles for growing any form of online platform and the Google+ API promises to be the ‘mother’ of all APIs. Ever since Google made the API publicly available

Facebook Doesn’t Like You “Disliking” Things

Facebook Doesn’t Like You “Disliking” Things

Social network giant Facebook is now heavily invested into semantics – at least that’s what things look like on the surface. According to reports, Facebook is toying with the idea of changing the wording of the current like

Twitter Estimated To Make $139 Million In 2011 Revenue

Twitter Estimated To Make $139 Million In 2011 Revenue

Twitter’s recent trouble with security vulnerabilities hasn’t slowed it one bit. A new report suggest that Twitter is pressing on with its growth, and that with some of the more ambitious implementations, the micro-blogging giant is set to record massive revenue growth.