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Facebook’s $38 Share Price Makes Instagram Deal Worth Nearly $1.2 Billion

instagram-jokeFacebook's $38 share price would make its deal to buy Instagram worth nearly $1.2 billion, up from the roughly $1 billion price the company announced in April. That's a nice little bump but the deal hasn't gone through given regulatory reviews....

Pulse Is Getting Ready To Make Money, Is Hiring Its First Sales Executive

pulse_everywherePulse, the popular free mobile news reader for iPhone, iPad and Android, could soon get ads. Until now, Pulse, which launched its first app in May 2010, was ad free and the company focused more on user acquisition than monetizing...

Facebook Credits About to Grow Up…. Fast

Screen Shot 2012-05-17 at 6.55.49 PMAlthough introduced in 2009, we’ve only seen glimpses of what Facebook Credits will become when it grows up, and Facebook is about to kick off the training wheels. So far, Facebook has done little to promote the virtual...

Twitter Wants An Interest Graph: Now Tracking Your Browsing To Make Follow Suggestions

Screen shot 2012-05-17 at 1.28.01 PMTwitter does a lot of things right, but it still hasn't solved the problem of turning its noise into signal. After joining Twitter, it can take a lot of following and unfollowing scores of accounts before you've...

Facebook Will Have The Biggest Tech IPO Ever, Raising $16 Billion With $38 Share Price

Facebook Share PRiceFacebook shares will start trading at $38 tomorrow, the company confirmed in a release, giving it a valuation of $104.12 billion. Facebook and its early shareholders will raise just over $16 billion in tomorrow's much anticipated IPO. At a $104 billion...

The Google AdSense Killer And 3 Other Ways Facebook Could Make A Lot More Money

facebook-money-360Tiny sidebar and news feed ads aren't going to cut it. If Facebook wants to live up to a $100 billion valuation it will need bold new revenue streams. An offsite ad network, big glossy news feed ads, or and payments for...

Getaround Wants To Get You To TechCrunch Disrupt

getaroundGetaround was the big winner at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2011. Since then, the startup has continued to lead and dominate the car sharing space. This year, Getaround will be back in New York to help us hand off the

Weotta Go: An iPhone App That Suggests Activities For Right Now

photo (2)Here's an iPhone app for those moments when you're wondering, "Okay, I've got some free time right now — what should I do?" Weotta Go is actually the latest product from Weotta, a startup that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last...

Twitter Now Honors Mozilla’s Do Not Track Feature

twitter logoMozilla's Do Not Track feature, which allows users to tell websites that they would like to opt-out of being tracked by third parties, is starting to gain some traction among both users and publishers. According to new data shared by...

The Facebook Stats Game: Brazil Has The Highest Active Reach; Bangkok Tops The List Of Cities

facebook-world-mapFacebook says that it generated half of its revenues outside of the U.S. and Canada in the first quarter of 2012, and some numbers out today underscore just how extensive its reach is in different markets, with active usage in some countries...

Still Smiling, Eduardo? Senators Schumer, Casey Want To Collect Your $67M In Facebook Taxes Anyway

saverin fAnother development in the ongoing story of how Eduardo Saverin has given up his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying $67 million in taxes related to Facebook's IPO: the U.S. government doesn't want him get away with it quite so fast. Today, Senators Charles...

The Weather Channel Beautifies And Socializes Its iPhone App

TWC_iPhone_5.0_current.rainIn an effort to streamline its digital offerings, The Weather Channel has today announced that its popular iPhone app has undergone a major redesign. It started with the launch of the iPad app, and just a few weeks ago The Weather...