(Reuters) – Only about half of Twitter’s 200 million-plus registered members log on daily but the microblogging website is chalking up growth of 40% every quarter in mobile device usage, Chief Executive Dick Costolo said on Thursday. Twitter, one of a coterie of Internet social networking services like Facebook and Google Inc.’s embryonic “Google+”, is [...]

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Zynga registered with the SEC for its highly anticipated IPO today, finally offering a look inside the social gaming powerhouse. We now know the answers to some burning questions, such as whether it is profitable (yes, it posted net income of about $90 million last year). For most of us, the most intriguing question has [...]

I couldn’t help reposting the news from Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch blog that Russian investor Yuri Milner purchased a $70 million home in Silicon Valley. This isn’t because the news is surprising. It’s not a shock that Milner would want a base of operations in California’s venture heartland. This founder of the Moscow investment firm DST [...]

Groupon, the daily coupon site, issued a corrected release late Monday that made changes to its investor list. Mail.ru did not participate in the current investment round that raised $950 million in financing. However, DST did, according to the release. Earlier Monday, Group issued a statement listing a slew of investors contributing to the near $1 billion round, including Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures.