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Social media platform Twitter was bought by Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk last week in a highly anticipated $44 billion acquisition. Musk has plans to change the platform, which could involve reviving an old company. What Happened: Among the early plans for Twitter from Musk are to charge...

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has hinted at plans to bring back Twitter Inc.'s long-defunct short video app Vine and make it better than the ByteDance-owned TikTok.  What Happened: On Monday, Musk conducted a poll on Twitter, asking users if he should bring back Vine....

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) have been competitors for many years. Today, we take a look at how the social media companies stack up when compared side by side. 2 Big IPOs: In 2012, Facebook held a massive IPO that valued the company at $100 billion. Shares...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) announced Thursday the discontinuation of Vine. While the company said it’d be keeping the six-second video site online, allowing people to still view or download vines, the end of the app means the end of new Vine content. And so ends Twitter's foray into...

Earlier this week, BuzzFeed reported that top Vine content creators are asking for some kind of revenue-sharing arrangement. Until now, Vine’s parent company, Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), has not paid content creators, even though they have attracted millions to their pages. According to...

Vine, a video platform owned by Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), has been losing market share and brand appeal to new video formats such as Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Snapchat. AdWeek's Lauren Johnson wrote that between September and November, Vine contributed only 113 of 2,500 social videos...

Most analysts have always valued Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) by comparing it with Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB). But according to Jason Calacanis, Inside.com founder and CEO, that’s where the Street might be making a big mistake. Calacanis was on CNBC Monday to discuss why Twitter shouldn’t...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) is betting it big on live streaming to be the next big thing in video sharing space with its recently acquired app, Periscope. However, it is expected to face some tough competition from a similar service, Meerkat. Michael Learmonth, editor of tech, media and culture at...

Social media has significantly changed the way that companies are trying to get the public’s attention. Word-of-mouth has always been the most powerful way for brands to attract new customers and strengthen brand loyalty. The advent of social media websites has created a new opportunity...

Brian Sozzi of Belus Capital Advisors published an article on The Street that Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) faces several challenges heading in to the new year. "Consider these issues to be partly a by product of Starbucks' own success," Sozzi wrote. "To keep its sales and earnings...

Vine was founded in June 2012 and acquired by Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) a few months later for a reported $30 million. It is designed in a way for people to film short clips that can be linked together for a total of six seconds. Each short video plays in a continuous loop, and are viewable directly...

Shares of Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS) have plummeted over 13 percent following the release of its first quarter 2014 results. Belus Capital's Brian Sozzi began his breakdown of the company by presenting the one key question he considers as he begins his analysis of any retailer: "Does XYZ company...

Brian Sozzi, CEO and chief equities strategist of Belus Capital Advisors, revealed the keys to Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) success in an article in Men's Health. Following the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, Sozzi shares Twitter's Vice President of Product and Revenue Kevin Weil's four main reasons...

In an investor's conference call, Krishna Subramanian spoke about the current state of mobile advertising and where he sees that going in Q4 and beyond. "Big brands, big budgets," he said toward the end of the 30-minute call. "I'm excited." The former CMO at Velti (NASDAQ: VELT) thinks...