Business is "blooming" for Twitter cofounder Biz Stone's newest startup, Jelly: The stealth venture just closed a Series A funding round from investors including fellow Twitter founder/Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Al Gore, Bono, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman.
The U2 front man is a cofounder of the charity that is now putting every step of activism--from information to calls to politicians to actual protests--in your pocket.
Who is more influential? More popular? Is there even a difference? These are the questions that social media monitoring firm Vocus aims to answer in a new white paper, which tries to define the qualities of an influencer.
According to a new report from analytics firm Sysomos, which analyzed more than 1.2 billion tweets, Twitter may have the shortest life span among social media services.
Not long ago, economist Noreena Hertz lived at the lefty margins of her field. But her (widely ignored) prediction of the credit crisis and her call for a more evolved form of capitalism have suddenly put her at the center of the universe.
