Social Media

Market participants are getting a leg up on retail investors by leveraging services that scour the social network for news.

Twitter priced its initial public offering at $26 a share, up from the estimated $23 to $25 range. The social media company will make its anticipated public debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "TWTR" Thursday.

Analysts at banks that are bringing Twitter public this week are decidedly less optimistic about the company's revenue prospects. 

By pricing its initial public offering at $28, Twitter would raise $2.3 billion and achieve a market valuation of about $16 billion.

BlackBerry executives reportedly met with Facebook in California to gauge the social media giant’s possible interest in a bid for the smartphone maker.

Twitter is looking to sell as many as 80.5 million shares priced at $17 to $20 each under its highly-anticipated IPO. It could raise up to $1.6 billion.

Twitter said in a regulatory filing it plans to list its highly-awaited initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TWTR.  

The buyout of Onavo highlights Facebook's intense focus on the mobile side of its business.

Malware attacks on Android surged 35% in the second quarter as hackers tweaked tactics to maximize profits. 

140 characters to $2B? Twitter is reportedly entertaining the idea of doubling the size of its IPO to $2 billion if the upcoming road show goes well. 

Twitter, the most highly hyped debut since Facebook, revealed its S-1 filing on Thursday for a $1 billion initial public offering.

As the advertising world teams up with social media, what was once just a fun way of keeping in touch with friends is paying big dividends for some.

The deal could help Twitter shore up its mobile-revenue generation ahead of a potential 2014 IPO.

Cyber criminals in Russia have built a lucrative business that employees thousands of people, and waiting for smartphone users to click on fishy links.

Facebook revealed in a blog post late Friday afternoon a bug accidentally released the contact information for more than six million of its users.   

The leading social network is reportedly in talks to acquire an Israeli start-up for up to $1 billion.

Twelve months and one incredibly-rocky IPO later, it’s clear Mark Zuckerberg’s social network failed to come close to unrealistic expectations.

The HTC First, or “Facebook phone” as many prefer to call it, is officially a flop.

We live in a litigious, politically correct society with thin-skinned people who get offended by all sorts of dumb things. That’s not a great combination if you want to keep getting a paycheck and stay out of court.

The head of the social media giant and dozens of banks asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit accusing it  of misleading investors about its financial condition before its IPO.