PALO ALTO, CA- Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) The social networking giant is reportedly working on a real time news application. Facebook seeks to expand its functionalities to something much more than just a social network – the most popular one in the world if it makes any difference. The company has reportedly been working on … Read more
Menlo Park, California – Instagram (NASDAQ: FB) Facebook-owned photo sharring application, has hit 400 million monthly active users, up from the 300 million in December of 2014. Instagram, Facebook’s only fully-owned platform, has reached 400 million users, beating its biggest rival, Twitter, as the now major social network plans to boost its advertising revenues from the service. … Read more
Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) is planning a serious overhaul that will involve the launch of a new feature sometime this year. As one of the top social media websites, the company expects to roll out Project Lightning, a new feature that will put videos and photos, as well as events frequently talked about at the forefront of … Read more
Twitter and Google have announced that they would be joining forces in order to increase user traffic to its websites. As part of the partnership, tweets from Twitter will now be displayed in Google search results for related terms. For example, a Google search for Taylor Swift would now pull up some of her latest … Read more
A new index fund has been launched that tracks the stocks most heavily tweeted about on Twitter. Financial data analytics company Market Prophit launched the index, which is based on the concept that chatter on social media can be used as an indication of a stock’s positive or negative market sentiment. Mining this type of … Read more