Social Media Check-Ins

Facebook decision makers and their bankers were reportedly closeted together shortly before the markets closed in New York Thursday trying to decide whether to price Facebook's IPO at $38 or $39 a share, according to the Wall Street Journal, which evidently had a glass - in the w... (more)

Facebook Wednesday upped the number of shares that will be sold when it IPOs Friday by almost 25% or 84 million shares to about 421.2 million shares of Class A common stock. The overallotment has also been increased from 50.6 million to 63.2 million. If all 484.4 million shares ... (more)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- Radius, the leading provider of sales intelligence on the small business market, today announced the results of their inaugural Radius Social Small Business Report. Topping the list of most social small business cities in the U.S. ... (more)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/16/12 -- Core News Facts: Glimpse, the first conference on social discovery, today announced the initial agenda with 23 confirmed speakers who are leading CEOs, founders and senior executives in social discovery: Banjo, Damien Patton, CEO a... (more)

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 05/16/12 -- Likeable Media, one of the fastest growing social media and word of mouth marketing firms, announced the winners of the first ever Likeable Awards, held at its Likeable U Conference yesterday at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York. Hund... (more)

Skyhook, the world leader in location information, context and intelligence, today announced that Soundtracker (http://www.soundtracker.fm), a popular geosocial internet radio app, has integrated Skyhook on all Android versions, including the Kindle Fire, and the Barnes & Noble N... (more)

You knew this was gonna happen, right? Facebook has repriced its IPO upwards from $28-$35 a share to $34-$38 a share giving it a valuation of $92 billion-$104 billion, a neighborhood more to its liking than the original $77 billion-$96 billion. The actual price won't be set unti... (more)

First Annapolis Consulting, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of its 2012 Top 100 Retailer Mobile Payments & Marketing Study, which provides an in-depth report on how leading U.S. retailers are leveraging the online and mobile channels to enable purchases and market to thei... (more)

Brazilian-born Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, 30, traded in his American citizenship last September to take up residence in Singapore, a move that will cut his taxes when Facebook IPOs on Friday. He is estimated to own about 4% or 5% of Facebook. The company was valued at $... (more)

Mark Ghuneim, CEO and Founder of Trendrr, a social media analytics company known for tracking social engagement around TV shows for TV networks and the industry at large, will keynote the Social TV World Summit which is taking place 22-23 May in London. Speaking ahead of the eve... (more)

American Express today launched an industry first mobile offer engine that recommends and ranks relevant merchant offers in real time for US Cardmembers based on their spending history and location – a Cardmember’s “spend graph.” This mobile experience is being piloted via the n... (more)

BOULDER, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- SendGrid, the leader in email deliverability, today announced that SendGrid's industry-leading email infrastructure service will be made available to HP Cloud Services customers, giving them a trusted option for transactional email manag... (more)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- Mixpanel, the most advanced analytics platform for mobile and web, announced today that it is on pace to reach 7 billion actions tracked in the month of May, making it one of the fastest growing analytics companies in the world. Si... (more)

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 05/09/12 -- The New York Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA-NY) today announced the 2012 winners of the chapter's three annual awards. Each year public relations professionals who have shown outstanding leadership and contribu... (more)

American Express (NYSE: AXP) announced today the launch of American Express Campus Edition Prepaid Card, a reloadable prepaid Card available in more than 500 Barnes & Noble college bookstores across the United States. Campus Edition Prepaid Card will provide college students with... (more)

Foursquare, the mobile location-sharing app (of which I'm a big fan), has an excellent recommondation system. Based on your recent checkins, places your friends found popular, and even the time of day, Foursquare Explore will recommend a great place for a sushi lunch, or the best... (more)

Belly, a rapidly-growing start-up that is effectively redefining customer loyalty for small businesses, announced today that it has received a $10 million Series B round of venture capital financing from Andreessen Horowitz (www.a16z.com). The new funds will be used to fuel devel... (more)

CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 05/07/12 -- The Word of Mouth Marketing Association's (WOMMA) WOMM-U 2012 conference begins today at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago. WOMM-U is the official conference for the word of mouth marketing industry, focusing on creating talkable an... (more)

The great Facebook IPO is supposed to happen on Friday May 18. The company's big investor-pitching pre-IPO roadshow is supposed to kick off this Monday and only see some appearances by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, according to the Wall Street Journal. CFO David Ebersman and C... (more)

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 05/04/12 -- LiveIntent today announces LFX, the first platform designed to allow publishers to manage and monetize their valuable subscribers wherever they are -- in email, on mobile devices and across the web. LiveIntent's LFX provides premium pub... (more)