OnSports Mobile App Bat...
Most popular mobile sports apps are trying to feed you scores and news, or show you fantasy numbers. OnSports , by HitPost, is in a smaller class of apps that’s focused on users running the discussion themselves. And now, ahead of the Super Bowl this Sunday, viral growth and...Hitwise: Facebook.com N...
In case you happened to be the victim of a day-long coma yesterday, it was a very exciting day for Mark Zuckerberg , Silicon Valley, and that quaint little social network we’ve all come to know, love, and be terrified of. Facebook filed its S-1 on Thursday with the crystal clear...
IPO Be Damned, Facebook...
For those not from Silicon Valley or Wall Street, there’s only 1 thing you really need know about Facebook’s plan to become a publicly traded company : Your Facebook won’t be suddenly overrun with ads. Facebook bluntly warns greedy investors “Our culture...
MVF Reveals Your Most V...
Ever wonder which of your Twitter followers you should be sucking up to? Well, you can go to MVF and find out. The app is a side project created by two startup guys — Alex Taub, who leads business development at Aviary, and Michael Schonfeld, a developer at Nerve Dating. Now, the idea...You Know What’s Cool?...
We learned a lot of things about Facebook today from its IPO filing . But there is one detail that sticks out for its improbable exactness: The $1.000 billion in profits Facebook reported for 2011. The number wasn’t $998 million. It wasn’t $1.003 billion. It was $1.000...LeVar Burton Snags @Rea...
While we nerds may best remember LeVar Burton as a VISOR-clad Starfleet officer, he also spent much of the 80s and 90s instilling in children an appreciation for reading. In fact, Burton is still stuck to the idea of encouraging childhood literacy — he launched a new company called...Zynga Makes Up 12 Perce...
Everyone likes to talk about how dependent Zynga is on Facebook, but that relationship cuts both ways. In the social network’s S-1 filing for its $5 billion IPO , Facebook says that Zynga accounted for 12 percent of its revenue in 2011, through a combination of virtual goods...Facebook’s Profits: $...
Facebook just filed its IPO registration ( SEC doc here ) and its financials are off the charts. Facebook’s IPO document provides the first peek at its financials. The company did $3.7 billion in revenues in 2011, and $1 billion in profits . That’s right. Net income was $1...