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Facebook’s ad business continues to grow at an impressive clip with both effectiveness - click through rate (CTR) - and volume - ad impressions - increasing by double-digits quarter-over-quarter. CTR itself...

It's still early in 2014 but we have a member of the billion-dollar app club, King.com, the company behind the worldwide sensation Candy Crush Saga. It's an especially happy day for me because Riccardo Zacconi...

Quite a great talk - he never thought about being an...

A new study that polled 1,600 self-identified social media users in college from around the United States revealed that an enormous 77% use Snapchat on daily basis. The study also found that the...

I *love* Firstround and everything they write on their website. Unique, insightful pieces from people who know. I am - and you should - always be thinking about messaging, PR and how your app appears to the...

The Japanese Internet retailer Rakuten plans to pay nearly $1 billion for Viber Media Inc., the company behind the Viber app. It's an interesting strategy which allows Rakuten to compete more closely with...

In what can be thought of as either sheer Silicon Valley insanity, or a wise defensive move, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg picked up WhatsApp - a four-year-old communications app - for a total price tag of $19...

It always pay to learn from the best, the most successful companies. There is, after all, not much point trying to learn from the average and mediocre. Especially if you're time poor, like most of us these...

"It was a great end to the year for Facebook," Mark Zuckerberg , Facebook cofounder and CEO, said in a statement, before alluding to the company's upcoming 10th anniversary next week. "We're looking forward...

Interesting interview from Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick, about what it takes to hire great people when you're growing...