Posts Tagged ‘ socialbakers ’

Heads up, Berlin startups: Earlybird raises $100m for its target $200m fund

April 3, 2012
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Earlybird Venture Capital, the aptly named pan-European early-stage VC firm based in Berlin, has raised $100 million for its fourth venture fund – only half of its target $200 million fund. The investment firm has now raised over $700 million since its founding in 1997, and has backed companies like Simfy, Socialbakers, Carpooling.com, madvertise, Peak…

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China’s Great Firewall hasn’t stopped Facebook from attracting its largest developer community in Asia

March 6, 2012
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Facebook may be blocked in China but that hasn’t stopped the country rising to become the largest contributor of apps to the social network in Asia. As we wrote last week, Facebook is aiming to recruit the cream of China’s graduate talent pool, but its footprint there is larger than may be expected. Speaking to Bloomberg,…

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Brand pages on Google+ growing 4x faster than on Twitter, but Facebook is still king

February 21, 2012
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Last week, we took a look at a report that showed that the most popular pages on Google+ were becoming more consumer-focused. Now, according to a recent report from Socialbakers, those brand pages are growing faster on Google+ than on Twitter. The analytics site is measuring that growth by the number of followers a page…

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