Sage vs Netsuite: CEOs Stephen Kelly and Zach Nelson take Tube-inspired ad war to Twitter November 6, 2014 Netsuite, the US software firm, is on the war path. The cloud computing giant wants a slice of UK rival Sage’s market share and isn’t afraid of getting its hands a bit dirty. On Wednesday, it launched a newspaper ad campaign, using a Tube-like map to attack Sage: “All Sage lines terminate here,” said the [...]
GCHQ director: WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook “facilitate” Isis terrorism November 4, 2014 GCHQ’s newly appointed director has suggested that Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other large US tech brands “facilitate” terrorism. In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times, Robert Hannigan writes that “the largest US tech companies…are the routes for the facilitation of crime and terrorism.” Hannigan’s article is published on the same day [...]
Facebook earnings boom with huge growth in mobile ad revenue after Twitter disappoints October 28, 2014 Facebook has posted impressive third quarter results with growth in both revenue and users. The multi-billion dollar company grew its daily active users by 19 per cent from a year ago, with the number of monthly active users growing by 14 per cent. Wall Street had expected the social media firm to post revenue for [...]
Twitter share price plummets as it fails to live up to World Cup hype October 27, 2014 Twitter shares dropped in value by as much as eight per cent in after hours trading, highlighting concerns about the micro-blogging site's user growth. In its earnings for the third quarter, it reported 284m monthly active users – a 23 per cent increase from the equivalent period in 2013 but just a five per [...]
Boris Johnson continues gas-bagging at #AskBoris Twitter question time October 20, 2014 Boris Johnson flexed his fingers and hit Twitter yesterday for his monthly #AskBoris question time and, as usual, the mayor didn’t disappoint with his flamboyant answers. He made an extraterrestrial quip when asked about the reinstatement of Peckham Lido, tweeting #takemetoyourlido. He said if he were to spend a night in any building at [...]
Tweet money transfer: Twitter and French bank BPCE will let users transfer cash via twitter October 13, 2014 Twitter is partnering with French bank BPCE to launch a new service that lets people transfer money between them by simply tweeting. Details of the plans are due to be unveiled tomorrow by BPCE’s mobile payment off-shoot S-Money. The French bank said those using the free peer-to-peer transfer service would need just a bank card and [...]
How Ebola spread: This Twitter visualisation maps mentions of the outbreak October 8, 2014 A new map visualising Ebola shows how the first confirmed case in the US sparked a huge surge in Twitter chatter around the world, as fears over the spread of the outbreak increased. The map tracks every mention of the Ebola hashtag (#ebola) across the world over the last month, with tweets coming from as [...]
Twitter sues US government for the right to release surveillance information October 7, 2014 Twitter is taking on the US government. The social media giant has filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice for restrictions preventing it from revealing the extent of US government surveillance of the site. Twitter argues the prohibitions are “unconstitutional” and deny its users a sufficient level of transparency. [...]
Chief executives and Twitter: Are they losing out? October 1, 2014 Only a handful of business leaders tweet, which may be a good thing. "I owe you one @BenKaufman! Here’s my #IceBucketChallenge. You’re up Sarah and Steve Immelt and Ken Chenault!” So tweeted General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt on 21 August. It’s difficult to imagine the company’s august co-founder and former president Charles [...]
Twitter is investing $10m in MIT partnership to make sense of social data with a new Lab for Social Machines October 1, 2014 Twitter is investing $10m in a partnership with US university MIT, renowned for its tech credentials, to make sense of the huge amount of social data shared by people across the world. The Lab for Social Machines (LSM) will focus on “the development of new technologies to make sense of semantic and social patterns across [...]