In the world of mobile apps, numbers come in two sizes: big and bigger. More than one billion people use Facebook’s mobile app every day. But what about the financial side of the mobile business; specifically, venture investment and returns... Mobile delivers high exit multiples despite broader market slowdownThis entry was posted in business Column Finance Mobile Spark Capital Startup company TC Venture Capital and tagged facebook on January 31, 2018 by Jason Rowley
In the world of mobile apps, numbers come in two sizes: big and bigger. More than one billion people use Facebook’s mobile app every day. But what about the financial side of the mobile business; specifically, venture investment and returns... Mobile delivers high exit multiples despite broader market slowdownThis entry was posted in business Column Finance Mobile Spark Capital Startup company TC Venture Capital and tagged facebook on January 31, 2018 by Jason Rowley
Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp sounds smarter and smarter. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on the Q4 2017 earnings call today that WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion users and sees 60 billion messages sent per day. That’s comp... WhatsApp hits 1.5 billion monthly users. $19B? Not so bad.This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC WhatsApp and tagged facebook on January 31, 2018 by Josh Constine
Twitter has now updated the number of people engaging with Russian trolls during the 2016 presidential campaign to 1.4 million. That’s more than double the initial 677,775 Twitter originally said had seen, followed or retweeted one of these... Twitter now says 1.4 million people interacted with Russian trolls ...This entry was posted in microblogging Social TC text messaging trolls WTF and tagged facebook twitter on January 31, 2018 by Sarah Buhr
Facebook is putting its short-term money where it’s mouth is, reducing the presence of viral videos in an effort to boost well-being of users of its site. Today in Facebook’s Q4 2017 earnings report CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that ... Facebook reduces time spent by 2 min/user/day to push well-beingThis entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook on January 31, 2018 by Josh Constine
Facebook is putting its short-term money where it’s mouth is, reducing the presence of viral videos in an effort to boost well-being of users of its site. Today in Facebook’s Q4 2017 earnings report CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that ... Facebook reduces time spent by 2 min/user/day to push well-beingThis entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook on January 31, 2018 by Josh Constine
Despite worries about Russia and that passive News Feed scrolling hurts us, Facebook beat expectations again in its Q4 2017 earnings report. Facebook now has 1.4 billion daily users, up 2.18% compared to growing 3.8% to 1.37 billion users in Q3. ... Facebook survives Q4 with slowing 1.4B daily users but record ...This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook on January 31, 2018 by Josh Constine
While at CES I try to avoid getting bogged down by dozens of random gadgets, and this time I mostly succeeded — but the mouse reviewer in me was intrigued by Lexip’s new gaming mouse that’s also a sort of floating joystick. It&#... Lexip’s joystick-mouse combo is a strange but promising hybridThis entry was posted in CES Gadgets hardware Reviews TC on January 31, 2018 by Devin Coldewey
If you’re more of a Gmail power user (or even semi-power user) and other email services geared toward work, you’ve probably installed plenty of plugins like Rapportive to make your job a little bit easier. And while it’s all fin... Polymail looks to unify business email tools into a single ...This entry was posted in Enterprise Mobile Startups TC on January 31, 2018 by Matthew Lynley
Actress Maisie Williams, best known for her role as Arya Stark on Game of Thrones, is the latest celeb to venture into tech entrepreneurship, with the launch of a new company aimed at connecting creatives, called Daisie. Available later this summ... Actress Maisie Williams to launch Daisie, a social app for ...This entry was posted in App Apps Creators Mobile Social Startups TC and tagged social media on January 31, 2018 by Sarah Perez