Facebook march to 1 billion users is a relentless one— that much is certain. What wasn’t so certain for many people was how quickly Facebook would reach that mark, and specifically which date.

Twitter had perhaps its best year since launch this past year (2011) and the prospects for growth in the coming years seem rosy indeed. But out of the records and stats, a picture of how the user base on the platform is constituted is emerging

Pandora increased the price range of its IPO by at least a third and also raised the number of stocks that would be sold to at least a million.