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According to private-company intelligence firm CB Insights, now is a particularly bad time to try to raise money if you’re a company built on top of Twitter.The ecosystem of third-party Twitter apps has seen a 50% decline… Read more

While many web companies offer their products for free, they aren’t exempt from the oldest rule of business: Make more money than you spend.Every company has to generate revenue, which fact was demonstrated clearly last week by Read more

WePay can most quickly be described as a sort of Paypal for groups. It allows users to collect, manage and send money as a group online.Hypothetically, it works well for clubs, small organizations, roommates and other groups and could… Read more

Facebook’s raking in the money and crushing the competition, according to a new report from eMarketer.  eMarketer believes advertisers will pay Facebook $1.29 billion this year, which is about 3.7 times the amount it expects MySpace to receive. You can read a Facebook-specific chart for yourself below.  As for its traditional rival, eMarketer said in [...]

PayPal has announced the launch of version 2 of its Android app. This feature "bump" technology, which lets two users bump their phones together to send money (much like the existing iPhone app). "Split the check is another great feature, which lets you automatically calculate the total cost of a bill and then collect money [...]

Advertisers have begun to divert – or even throw – much more money Facebook’s way, according to one of the company’s top execs.  COO Sheryl Sandberg indicated in an interview that some large organizations have increased their spending ten- or twentyfold in the last year. To be more precise, Sandberg actually told Brian Womack just [...]

Last month, Twitter fans received a shock when a study revealed that exactly zero percent of its 1,900 participants would consider paying for the service.  Last night, film critic Roger Ebert challenged those findings, showing that a significant number of his followers feel differently. About 4,000 of Ebert’s followers responded to a one-question survey he [...]

When we think of banks, we think of the brick-and-mortar financial institutions we turn to to keep our money safe. Even though in recent years we’ve seen reputable banks crumble and interest rates tumble, most of us would never think… Read more

We’ve known that Ask has been working on a new version of Ask.com for months, but now it’s here. Ask is placing new emphasis on the Q&A side of search, and is injecting the Q&A experience directly into the main search experience, which is what SVP of Product Management Tony Gentile tells WebProNews, sets the [...]

A total of 66 backers have pledged over $2,000 to help send the first Android phone to space.The Astdroid project hails from Danny Pier, a 25 year-old self-described computer nerd who turned to Kickstarter… Read more