Though swipe left / swipe right dating app Tinder is growing in popularity (it’s currently in the top 25 free apps in the App Store), the company currently has no monetization strategy. In other words, Tinder is completely free and…
Facebook Isn’t Going to Put Ads All Over WhatsApp, at Least Not Right Away
Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp is in the bag. After approvals from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the EU, Facebook filed the final paperwork earlier this week. Ok, so now Facebook has it and its 500 million+ user…
HTML5 Devs Can Now Sell Their Apps On The Amazon Appstore
HTML5 is the future, or so says open Web proponents. Everything you can do in native code on Android or iOS, they claim you can do in HTML5. While that may be true, you couldn’t make money with a HTML5…
Foursquare Opens Up Ads to Thousands of Small Businesses
In their continuing attempt to monetize the platform, Foursquare has just expanded their “Explore”-based self-serve ads to a few thousand small businesses. Foursquare first launched Promoted Updates about a year ago, and up until June of this year the company…
Foursquare Tests Small Business Promotions in Attempt to Better Monetize
Foursquare may be looking to take their promoted ads product to smaller businesses in an attempt to further monetize the 4-year-old company. AdAge reports that the company is currently testing a promotion program for small businesses in the New York…
Foursquare Gets $41 Million in Funding to Help Build the ‘Location Layer for the Internet,’ Better Monetize
Foursquare has announced that the company has secured $41 million in funding from private equity firm Silver Lake Waterman, as well as existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures. CEO Dennis Crowley announced the…
Facebook Home Will Gets Ads, At Some Point
Today, Facebook announced Home, a deep integration of Facebook into Android that basically turns any phone that installs it into a Facebook Phone. Home, which will launch on April 12th, is a family of apps that when installed, turns your…
Facebook Mobile Exec Emily White Is Your New Director of Business Operations at Instagram
Facebook Director of Mobile Partnerships Emily White is leaving that job, but she’s not going very far. Facebook has confirmed that White will head up Instagram’s expansion as the new Director of Business Operations. According to All Things D, White…
Pinterest Launches New Analytics Tool for Site Owners
After hinting at it for some time, Pinterest has finally launched its first web analytics product for website owners. With the (currently) free product, site owners can track how pins that come from their site perform on Pinterest. Site owners…
DJ Shadow Joins Forces With uTorrent To Monetize File Sharing
One thing you’ll hear from the RIAA and MPAA execs is how BitTorrent is cutting into their profits. They feel that free access to content is the worst thing that could ever happen to such an artistic medium. It robs…