Twitter IPO Ahead: Investors Go Long On Short Messages

With its initial public offering expected to launch in stock market trading Thursday, social networking phenomenon Twitter (TWTR) stands to make plenty of money from investors. But how will it make profits in the long term.

Many of the stocks in the Internet Content industry group are relying more heavily on mobile advertising than they have in the past, with varying results. Mobile-focused Twitter is the newest entrant to the hot group, ranked No. 5 of 197 that IBD tracks. The group is home to heavy hitters in Internet advertising, including Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO) and Chinese search engine Baidu (BIDU), along with social networks LinkedIn (LNKD) and Facebook (FB). Read more.

Socialgist Confirms New Partnership With China's Social Network Service Renren

The leading global source for Social Media Content, announces a partnership with Renren (NYSE: RENN), a leading real-name social networking Internet platform in China. Socialgist is the first official provider of social media data from the popular Chinese networking service outside of Mainland China. Socialgist provides social data solutions for the vast majority of the social media analytics, research and business intelligence platforms.

Renren was started in 2005 on a college campus and quickly spread nationwide boasting now over 194 million active users, particularly college students and young white-collar professionals. Renren is often referred to as the Facebook of China. Renren enables users to connect and communicate with each other, share information, create user generated content, play online games, watch videos and enjoy a wide range of other features and services.

 

"Global brands continue to increase their investment to better understand and reach consumers around the world," states Socialgist President Darren Kelly, "it has always been a top priority to have a partnership with Renren because of the high quantity and quality of the content users produce on their service. We couldn't be more excited about our partnership." Read more.

Artemis Energy Holdings (ARTT) Announces LinkMyFan.com to Add OAuth Features to Enable Visitors to Sign Into Link My Fan With Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Live and Google+ Credentials

Social Networking Content Management Platform owned by Artemis Energy Holdings (OTC Pink: ARTT), is opening its platform to members of Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Live and Google+. Account holders at these popular social media sites will now be able to sign in to Link My Fan using their existing userid and password on any of these sites, according to Ray Firth, ARTT CEO.

OAuth, also known as Open standard for Authorization, is a widely implemented standard that enables authorization from third-party service providers. This enables members of these social media sites to easily sign into Link My Fan without revealing their login details for these sites. Read more.

Pandora: Not a Sound Buy

The revolutionary iTunes Store, introduced by Apple Inc. (AAPL) in April 2003, commercialized digital music like never before. It took only five years for the store to become the largest music vendor in the US, and another two years for the service to become the largest music vendor in the world. Its success marked a significant shift in consumer preferences in terms of content consumption, and redefined how users interacted with digital content.

One of the reasons for the phenomenal success of iTunes was its a la carte pricing plan, which allowed consumers to purchase individual songs at a flat rate without having to pay a subscription fee. For the first time, users had the option of paying only for the music they wanted to listen to, instead of having to purchase entire music records for the sake of one or two hit songs.

But that simply isn’t good enough anymore. Read more.