Twitter announced on Monday through a blog post that it had acquired MoPub without disclosing the financial terms of the deal.
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Saudi Prince will not sell any of his Twitter shares at IPO
In an interview with Reuters, Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said he, through his Kingdom Holdings investment firm, would not sell any Twitter shares owned in the IPO.
Twitter's value still a concern at IPO
The use of the JOBS Act for the Twitter IPO a concern for investors. The main question would be, how much is Twitter really worth? The microblogging site has over 200 million active users and has been instrumental in the Arab Spring protests two years ago.
The JOBS Act and Twitter
The JOBS Act is what made Twitter's IPO secretive and relatively inexpensive. Twitter is taking a different path en route to its IPO. This may become the path that many others after it would follow, especially in this day and age of excessive sharing through social media.
Twitter and the issues of IPOs before it
Many lessons can be learned from the IPOs of other social media outlets as IPO would be conducting its own soon.
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According to a Forbes news magazine article, Twitter Inc.'s acquisition deal of mobile ad exchange startup MoPub implied that it would be readying itself for an IPO next year.
With the opening of its new Australian unit, Twitter confirmed the official appointment of ex-Google unit head Karen Stock as the country manager for Australia.
The Syrian Electronic Army took responsibility of hacking sites like the New York Times and Twitter by targeting host Melbourne IT.
Social media platform Twitter hired Nathan Hubbard as its new commerce chief. Twitter Inc. had hired Nathan Hubbard who was also the former president of Ticketmaster.
Jodi Arias, convicted murderer, had a few more issues up her sleeve. In a decision that has social media implications, the judge presiding over the case of Jodi Arias had postponed the date for the sentencing of convicted killer.
The world saw Filipinos staged a mass rally against corruption that was organized via social media like Facebook and Twitter.
Marco Argenti, head of developer relations in Nokia, announced that he left Nokia for a job at Amazon's Web Service Business.
Nielsen said that the chatter on Twitter could enhance the live ratings of television shows. Last week, 143,109 tweets each second was sent by Japanese Twitter users which set to a new world record.
Twitter users boycotted the lack of action by the social media platform against violent tweets. Twitter has become a dangerous place, especially for high profile individuals.
