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TWITTER Inc posted quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street targets and cut its full-year revenue forecast due to weak demand for its new direct response advertising, sending its shares down as much as 24 percent on Tuesday (April 28). Twitter projected 2015 revenue of $2.17 billion to $2.27 billion, compared with its earlier forecast of $2.3 billion to $2.35 billion. Analysts on average had been expecting full-year revenue of $2.37 billion. Twitter said its […]
For the most part, Global Positioning System (GPS) works great. It gives people the ability to get from point A to point B with a simple press of a button on a smartphone. That’s until you hit a big city. Tall buildings and satellite signals don’t like each other and in an era where companies like UBER and YELP depend on accurate navigation, Pete Tenereillo of California start up Pathsense has this to say. “GPS […]
Pop star Taylor Swift, famous for sharing important events in her life, said on Thursday (April 9) that her mother is suffering from cancer and urged her millions of fans to tell their parents to get screened for the illness. The “Shake It Off” singer said in a post on the micro blogging site Tumblr that her mother was feeling fine but she and her brother asked her to go for a check-up. “The results […]
Turkey temporarily blocked access to Twitter and YouTube on Monday (April 6) after they initially refused a request to remove photographs of an Istanbul prosecutor held at gunpoint by far-left militants, taken hours before the prosecutor was killed in a shootout last week, officials said. Facebook said it had complied with a Turkish court order requiring it to restrict access to some content or face a block on its service. A company spokesman said it […]
Twitter Inc. and law enforcement authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network’s co-founder and other employees, the company said in reaction to media reports. Islamic State supporters, in online posts on Sunday (March 1), called for attacks against Twitter and its “interests,” including death threats, according to the online news media company Buzzfeed as well as the NBC news network. “Our security team is investigating the veracity […]
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc plans to open an office in Hong Kong early next year to serve greater China and tap advertising revenue from Chinese companies, the Wall Street Journal reported. The office is set to open in the first quarter of 2015 and will mainly house sales staff, Shailesh Rao, Twitter’s vice president for Asia Pacific, the Americas and emerging markets, told The Wall Street Journal. Twitter has been blocked by Chinese censors since 2009. Even if it does […]
Twitter allows its users to play podcasts, music and other audio clips direct from their timelines and message feeds through its partnership with SoundCloud.
(Reuters) – The CIA, which has long trolled social media to try to uncover global trends and track evil-doers, officially joined Twitter and Facebook on Friday. The spy agency cast the move as an effort to better get out its message and engage directly with the public, but its first Twitter message, sent out shortly before 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), did not indicate there would be major revelations. It said simply: “We can neither confirm nor […]
Twitter Trending: #BalangAraw Filipinos are known to be hardworking and ambitious. We dream of endless possibilities about our future. It may be possible or impossible, but who cares, right? We have been given the gift of free will and part of it is to decide what road we shall take. When we reach the end of the road, we look back and see how far we’ve gone. That said, we thank the existence of the […]
The Turkish government lifts its ban of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, after the courts declared that said ban violates Turkish citizens’ right to freedom of expression.
The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) WorldWide Walk, which aims to support victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda, became one of the hottest topics on the social networking site Twitter today. The charity walk, which began at 3 am today (local time) in New Zealand, topped the trending topics for a short time in the popular website early this morning. The event has already drawn record crowds in various areas here and abroad.
By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO Wed Feb 5, 2014 5:23pm EST (Reuters) – Twitter Inc reported its slowest pace of user growth during the fourth quarter, dimming hopes that the social media phenomenon can sustain its torrid pace of expansion and wiping out more than 10 percent of its value on Wednesday. The San Francisco company posted better-than-expected quarterly revenue of $243 million in its first results as a public company. But investors focused on […]
