2010年12月29日星期三

Facebook, Groupon and Twitter show significant value growth in 2010

This year, social networking web sites across the board have obtained rising consideration from each companies and shoppers. Consequently, leading social networking web sites have seen sizeable rise in value this 12 months, according to a current report from Nyppex.

Twitter's
value greater than doubled, reaching a bit over $3.7 billion, though Facebook saw 56 % growth to achieve $41.two billion. Also, Groupon, which boldly rejected Google's $6 billion acquisition present previously this month, quadrupled in worth this yr and is now well worth $4.8 billion. According towards the report, Groupon is now seeking private funding.

The
consideration from investors comes as the result of diverse social media use. Analysis firms IDC and Forrester the two listed social media among their major technologies for 2011. As social media use continues to become a lot more varied, interest from investors will expand accordingly.

"You have an
raising quantity of amazing businesses that have already established they've plenty of value," stated
Eric Jackson, co-founder of
on line personal investment service agency CapLinked. "People naturally want a opportunity to spend money on a corporation like that."
Speedy social networking development is expected to proceed. Executives from Facebook and Twitter, which respectively surpassed 550 million and 200 million people this yr, equally declared their business can at some point reach 1 billion people.

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