Sentences with phrase «of user growth»

The rest has been withheld by the development team; 200 million tokens are placed in a pool used for product development and 300 million tokens are part of the user growth pool (UGP).

«The short - term, dopamine - driven feedback loops we've created are destroying how society works,» said former Facebook VP of user growth Chamath Palihapitiya.

Along with a strong performance in Q2 in terms of user growth and revenue, this news as has pushed Facebook's share price to an all - time high of $ 75 in after - hours trading.

Former Facebook vice president of user growth Chamath Palihapitiya said that social media is «eroding the core foundations of how people behave» and that he feels «tremendous guilt» about creating tools that are «ripping apart the social fabric.»

Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's former head of user growth, said in December that the company was «ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.»

Eventually, these efforts could pay off in terms of user growth and average revenue per user growth in the developing world.

In its first quarter financial report in 2014 Facebook anticipated that «mobile usage will continue to be the primary driver of our user growth for the foreseeable future and that usage through personal computers will decline worldwide, including in key markets such as the United States and other developed markets in Europe and Asia» (emphasis mine).

And if the early partnerships prove mutually beneficial for each party, it could be an important source of user growth for the company.

He has also capitalized on his time at Facebook, where he as once VP of user growth, to cultivate his own investment firm, Social Capital, often promoting the fact that it has its own internal platform team.

It does not appear that Twitter's user base will catch up with its competitors anytime soon either as the rate of user growth has been declining since 2Q12.

They focused instead on Twitter's almost complete lack of user growth, with the platform's network essentially stalling out at just above 300 million monthly active users.

Rather than being caught in a he - said, she - said game on minute technical issues, there were massive funding rounds, tales of user growth and grand plans to reinvent the financial system.

Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's former head of user growth, said in December that the company was «ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.»

Up to 75 percent of Twitter's traffic is a result of its API, meaning much of its user growth stems from third - party apps.

Even former Facebook vice president of user growth Chamath Palihapitiya has expressed a sense of guilt about what mobile apps like social media have done to society.

Not exact matches

But few of Facebook's 2.2 billion users have departed so far, based on the audience and revenue growth the company reported last week.

The on - demand economy is also projected to show significant growth, though the general trend of expansion in the number of users of 1099 forms (tax forms for independent contractors) started long before the recent tech boom.

It could be months before Twitter decides to sell — Dorsey still hopes to carry out a vision of tapping into live broadcasts events as a way to reignite user growth — but the question remains: How much would an outside company be willing to pay for Twitter?

Greencrest's 2014 Twitter IPO projections are based on a variety of metrics, including recent management changes, partnerships with major brands, user growth, and, most importantly, revenue growth.

«We are particularly positive on Expedia's more refined hotel supply strategy given we believe Expedia's non-vacation rental supply count is still roughly 50 percent of Priceline's... and increased selection should lead to higher conversion and an increased ability to bid on Google keywords to drive traffic and user growth.»

In February, the company posted its best quarter yet — it saw revenue growth of $ 286 million and daily active users increased to 187 million.

Oscar's growth is driven by its ability to leverage virtual services that promote convenience and encourage user engagement, a key part of the consumerization of healthcare.

At the time Twitter had 250,000 active users and an impressive rate of monthly growth.

For Twitter, which has long struggled with introducing new users to its confusing world of hashtags, @ signs, and followers, the NFL games present a unique opportunity to jump start growth.

For the full year, it said it is aiming for 92 - 96 million premium users, representing growth of 33 percent at the mid-point of that forecast.

Perhaps even more impressive than the revenue growth is the passion GoPro's users have for its products, as expressed by the flood of GoPro videos spreading across YouTube and Facebook.

Most recently, he takes on the tendency of startups to tout statistics like number of users, web traffic, and revenue growth instead of honest - to - goodness profits.

To the ire of Wall Street, Twitter has seen a continued decline in revenue growth over the past eight quarters while the growth of its active users has all but plateaued.

«There seems to be very little progress on some of the big things in terms of getting user growth going again, in terms of making Twitter more accessible for new users, in terms of dealing with abuse, in terms of driving revenue growth.»

While Snapchat is wildly popular today, founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy admit that they «anticipate that the growth rate of our user base will decline over time.»

For the San Francisco company, these games are part of a major initiative to use the video streaming of live events, particularly sports, as a way to drive user growth and engagement, and, in this way, ad sales.

To justify its relatively high valuation and fend off concerns about slowing user growth, Snap has emphasized how important Snapchat is to its users, how long they spend on the app and the revenue potential of the emerging trend for young people to communicate with video rather than text.

One of his PowerPoint slides put it more bluntly: «Profit growth for NTGR; User growth for ARLO.»

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It put out a clarification statement after the report, giving two clues about the number: that daily users make up less than 50 percent of monthly users, and that there's a lot of room for growth.

Yet small businesses, which provide two out of ever three jobs in the U.S., are major users of our crumbling infrastructure, Mills said, adding that the disrepair is slowing down growth.

Twitter is telling investors to focus instead on the percentage growth of people who use it daily, but in a May 10 letter, the SEC asked for Twitter to explain «how the percentage change information provides an investor with a clear understanding of user engagement on your platform.»

Recent months have brought a spate of bad news for the company / social media service, with user growth bottoming out, executives leaving the company and usage declining.

If they want to survive these next few years, Twitter needs to find some way to supercharge growth, both in terms of active users and revenue.

A tightening of the company's focus on home services like cleaning and handyman work and a somewhat more aggressive use of paid channels for user acquisition, with advertising now bringing in 35 percent of new business, helped fuel the growth.

By using social media, creating content that's relevant to your users, and providing value beyond your product, your business will see huge growth in a short amount of time.

Adding a million users every day in the week that Hurricane Harvey was active and still at the top of the charts, Moore says that the company has learned a great deal about what is required to support rapid growth, especially in urgent situations.

User growth will depend on the execution of those projects and Dorsey's ability to find time to lead those efforts, analysts said.

Twitter has been trying for years to jumpstart user growth, and now the company is rolling out a series of changes designed to make the service easier and more intuitive.

«While we believe many of the growth initiatives highlighted by «new» CEO Jack Dorsey are promising, it remains less clear whether these will translate into more active user growth and engagement,» Baird Equity Research analysts wrote.

Twitter, which has spent the past couple of years struggling to boost user growth and ad revenue, recently listed the space through brokerage firm Cresa San Francisco.

The New York - based company in February announced its best user growth in eight years, adding 2.2 million net new U.S. subscribers for 2015 — a 30 % improvement over 2014 — for a total of 29.5 million.

David Wehner, Facebook's chief financial officer, pointed to Asia - Pacific, especially India, as one of the most promising areas for continued user growth.

Sure, growth of users is extremely important, but it can come at the expense of investing in ways to understand, predict and minimize customer churn.

The company also saw strong growth in monthly active users, now boasting 1.71 billion as of June 30, up from 1.49 billion a year earlier.