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Constant connectivity and the emergence of smartphones has forever changed the way people consume content. Attention spans aren’t what they used to be. It's this reason that creates a preference for quick engaging content, and has led to the rise to the proliferation of GIFs for...

Reddit, the popular social news aggregation, web content rating and discussion website that bills itself as "the front page of the internet," is valued at $1.5 billion. Reddit's management team is pitching venture capitalists to secure $150 million in financing based on a $1.5 billion valuation,...

Ah, a blast of Smirnoff Vodka. It’s on the house. The joke, that is. It’s on the White House. In a rare shot of political satire by Madison Avenue, the makers of Smirnoff are mocking President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russian interests who purportedly hacked the American...

Free speech is a double-edged sword, and social media and internet companies like Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Reddit know all-too-well how sharp that blade can be. But the poster child for online trolling and harassment is Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR). For...

Investors may not have been thrilled with Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD)’s fourth-quarter report, but Martin Shkreli was ecstatic. Following the Tuesday release, which drove Gilead shares to their lowest point since 2014, the pharmaceutical giant advised investors to buy shares...

This year may be a disappointing year for social media and its investors. According to the latest data from Global Equities Research’s new Social Media Industry Tracker, social media may be reaching its peak. Analyst Trip Chowdhry expects downward pressure on top social media stocks in 2017...

As Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY)'s new augmented reality game Pokémon GO rapidly gains popularity, already being applauded for Monday's 35+ percent spike in ADR prices and set to surpass Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR)'s daily active user numbers, an interesting issue has...

A new survey of U.S. consumers that subscribe to a streaming video on demand (SVOD) service concluded that one of the most common reasons for canceling a service is the use of too many ads. According to IBM's Cloud Video division, 27 percent of the nearly 1,000 respondents indicated a streaming...

The unpredictability of the Brexit vote has led to some spirited financial debates on social media in the past week. One Reddit discussion focused on Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In addition to being a best-selling author, the Lebanese-American statistician is also a former derivatives trader and hedge...

A Reddit poster recently mentioned that one of his coworkers invested $10,000 in Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) back in 1999 and now plans on using his roughly $600,000 in profits to buy a retirement home. The poster then asked the Reddit community what single investment they would choose if...

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) recently reported a Q1 net income loss of $75 million. While the company continues to operate in the red, the Q1 loss was relatively modest compared to Q1 2015’s net income loss of $282 million. Tesla, which has demonstrated spectacular revenue growth but...

A Reddit poster recently asked if financial professionals regretted their decision to work in the industry. “I ask because it’s not the first field that comes to mind when I think of altruism, and bankers don’t come out of their career thinking they’ve made a tangible...

On Friday, a Reddit thread was created criticizing LendingTree, Inc. (NASDAQ: TREE) amid complaints of misinformation regarding interest rates and financing availability, particularly for people with poor credit. There were three main themes of criticism to the trending LendingTree thread. 1...

Indonesia announced it would ban Tumblr and 477 other websites for their “pornographic content,” according to a statement made Wednesday by Azhar Hashim, a director of the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Jakarta Globe reported. The decision...

The latest data from TickerTags provides some insightful info on trends in social media and virtual reality. TickerTags monitors social media sites to identify trends by searching for words or phrases that are found together in social media content, such as tweets. In the past 18 months, social...