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? By looking at the numbers behind two different ends of the startup life cycle, a reasonable understanding of the mobile market today can be had. Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/mobile-delivers-high-exit-multiples-despite-broader-market-slowdown/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170368967561 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com
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Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp sounds smarter and smarter. Today CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on the Q4 2017 earnings call that WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion users and sees 60 billion messages sent per day. That’s compared to 1.3 billion monthly users and 1 billion daily active users in July. The massive growth makes Facebook’s choice to pay over $19 billion… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/whatsapp-hits-1-5-billion-monthly-users-19b-not-so-bad/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170361280301 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com 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 “Already last quarter, we made changes to show fewer viral videos to make sure people’s time is well spent. In total, we made changes… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/facebook-time-spent/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170361280081 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com 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. That’s a sizeable slow down, and the lowest quarter-over-quarter percentage daily user growth ever reported by the company. That could be… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/facebook-q4-2017-earnings/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170361279816 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com 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 fine to try to pull together a suite of plugins to make that a little bit easier, a startup called Polymail is hoping to rope that all into a single hub… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/polymail-looks-to-unify-business-email-tools-into-a-single-web-app/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170353659946 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com Actress Maisie Williams to launch Daisie a social app for talent discovery and collaboration1/31/2018 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 summer as a mobile app, Daisie will offer a platform where creators can network, like, share and collaborate on projects within a social networking… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/actress-maisie-williams-to-launch-daisie-a-social-app-for-talent-discovery-and-collaboration/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170353659686 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com SoftBank is partnering up with messaging app Line to help develop its Line Mobile telecom service. Line announced that it has agreed to allow SoftBank to take a 51 percent in the business via an issuance of new shares. The deal is expected to close by March. From the documents, its mobile business is valued at around $15 million (1.7 billion JPY) but a company spokesperson told TechCrunch… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/softbank-line-mobile-japan/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170340511916 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com Samsung has ended Intel’s 25-year run as the world’s biggest seller of chipsets after it posted its 2017 end of year financials. The Korean tech giant’s chipset division — which has long been its biggest hitter — grossed total revenue of $69 billion in 2017, eclipsing the $62.8 billion Intel reported for last year. That was a record year for Intel — and… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/samsung-intel-worlds-largest-chipmaker/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170339417786 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com A California appeals court has sided with Allan Candelore, a man suing Tinder over the pricing for its premium service, Tinder Plus. Specifically, Candelore and his lawyers argued that by charging $9.99 per month if a user is under 30, versus $19.99 per month if you’re 30 or older, Tinder is discriminating based on age. Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/appeals-court-rules-that-tinders-pricing-violates-age-discrimination-laws/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170325748076 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are jointly investigating Apple’s communications about the software update that slowed down older models of the iPhone, Bloomberg is reporting. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the government has reportedly requested details on the company’s communications about the software update. The Bloomberg… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/apple-reportedly-under-investigation-by-sec-and-doj-for-phone-slowdown/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/170321893236 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com |
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