comScore, an Internet market research firm, released information from data about mobile social media usage changes during the period of August 2010 to August 2011. comScore's data, if accurate provides interesting insights into our mobile social activities. Note that comScore does not differentiate between social network sites like Facebook and conventional blog sites for some of their reported results.


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In a former monastery in the centre of Vilnius, the participants of Lithuania’s first startup accelerator are furiously coding. It’s a modest office by the standards of glitzy peers such as TechStars – a long room, with four blocks of desks and a few whiteboards dotted around – but a landmark nonetheless. It’s the most [...]

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Sprouter made a very tough decision in early August. They announced that they were shutting down. A decision that would send all those involved with the company in separate directions, which was very disappointing to their community of entrepreneurs. However, not long after making the announcement the company started working on ways to keep Sprouter’s online startup community alive. So with great excitement Sprouter has been acquired by Postmedia Network Inc.

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Tweet Usually when the media talks about social media growth or when they mention a specific network, they go to the number of users. We know Facebook has a zillion users, we know that G+ has hit 25 million. While that information is important, it's like me saying that I have X amount of Twitter [...]

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Tweet Usually when the media talks about social media growth or when they mention a specific network, they go to the number of users. We know Facebook has a zillion users, we know that G+ has hit 25 million. While that information is important, it's like me saying that I have X amount of Twitter [...]

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Newspaper website traffic is on the rise in Europe, and Facebook's importance to those sites is growing, according to new data from comScore.The figures show that in June this year, Facebook accounted for at least 7.4% of traffic to the top five newspaper sites in Europe – almost double what it was a year before.Germany's Bild saw the biggest increase, with its percentage of traffic from Facebook increasing from 3% in June 2010 to 14% a year later. Interestingly, The Guardian, which in 201 [...]

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Today at a special event at its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken the stage to unveil some key new announcements (you can find our live notes and a live stream right here). One of the first things Zuckerberg announced: Facebook has observed the the rate that its users are sharing is increasing at an exponential rate.

He explains that if you look at any Facebook user, on average, the amount they share today is twice what they shared a year ago — and in [...]

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Back in Skype's early days, it was adding users so fast that it liked to boast that it was "the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history." Well, by at least one measure (registered users 9 months after launch), mobile video chat service Tango is outpacing Skype. Tango now has 17 million registered users across both Apple and Android devices, only 9 months after it launched. By comparison, Skype celebrated 9 million users on its first birthday back in 2004.

Today, [...]

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For those not yet familiar with the peer-to-peer mobile startup, they've had a whirlwind year thus far. Built at hackathons and startup weekends over the first few months of this year, Zaarly took first price at LA Startup Weekend in March, and soon thereafter raised a $1 million seed round from an impressive list of investors -- Ashton Kutcher, Paul Buchheit, Lightbank, and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington (see below), among them. In May, Zaarly launched nationwide and, in less than a month [...]

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