Category: Blog

Bart van Olphen has a novel idea: he wants to teach how to cook sustainable fish dishes. His Instagram videos are helping his idea turn into reality. Bart’s Fish Tales, known as the world’s shortest cooking show, already has over 43,000 followers on Instagram.     The videos run for 15 seconds and Olphen knows that in […]

Facebook will hold its F8 developer conference for the first time since 2011. The media is abuzz with what to expect at the event considering the fact that Facebook is now more of a mobile-focussed company. At the last F8 event, Facebook’s announcements were mainly centered around the desktop website.   Here’s a roundup of what-to-expect […]

Forrester has both good and bad news for Facebook. According to a new report by the market research firm, for every 1 million fans drawn to a company’s Facebook page, each of the posts received around 700 interactions. For Twitter, the ratio was about 300 interactions per 1 million followers. The report titled “Use Instagram […]

Twitter shared its financial results for Q1 2014 - the company reported $250 million in revenues out of which advertising revenue totaled $226 million. And mobile advertising revenue was approximately 80% of total advertising revenue.

Facebook plays a major role when it comes to content discovery on mobile devices. It is responsible for 24% of referrals to news and entertainment publishers, revealed Quantcast through its official blog. The finding is a part of Quantcast’s upcoming report on how mobile has changed the way users engage with content. The report is based […]

Vivek “Vic” Gundotra, the man primarily responsible for Google+, announced on Thursday that he’ll be leaving Google after 8 years. In a post on Google+ he announced his decision to leave Google

With a population of 2.4 billion people, the city of internet never sleeps. Every minute there's something happening. Here's some interesting data that internet users do every minute online:

Facebook announces FB Newswire, a resource that will help journos find, share and embed newsworthy content from Facebook . The social media giant has partnered with News Corp’s Storyful ( which aggregates news content shared on social networks) to launch FB newswire.   News is finding a bigger audience on Facebook than ever before. Journalists and […]

Twitter recently rolled out its new profile to all the users across the globe. The new things about the redesigned Twitter profile are -

Q1 2014 reports from Gigya and Janrain give us an insight into the world of social logins and which social media platform rules it.

Facebook’s 1st quarterly report plants yet another feather in its cap- 1.01 billion monthly active users on phones and tablets. It shows how Facebook is gaining pace in the mobile devices sector and is getting closer to become the largest social platform for both, desktop and mobile users.    First Quarter 2014 Operational Highlights Daily active users […]

WhatsApp, the instant messaging service which was acquired a couple of months ago by Facebook, now has 500 million active users. Today, WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum wrote a blog post thanking all the users. Here's what he wrote