Pinterest Funding Details vs Use of Proceeds

Filing Details Pinterest, Inc., which listed its industry on March 16, 2015.
Previous to this filing, their last Form D was filed May 27, 2014.

Offering Details The total reported offering size was $577,916,906.
Of this amount, Pinterest, Inc. sold $367,099,927 or (63.52% of the offering), with the first sale occuring on February 27, 2015.
The minimum investment for this offering was set at $0.

On average, companies in this industry sell 72.98% of the total offering size. $210,816,979 was reported remaining.

What are the worlds biggest internet companies across each nation

Google is USA, and the worlds biggest  internet company valued at $410billion

Tencent  is China's biggest  internet company valued at $154billion

 Mxit  is South Africa's biggest  internet company valued at $48billion

Naver is South Korea's biggest Internet Company with a valuation of $27billion

 Yandex is Russia's biggest  internet company valued at $14billion

The Biggest Internet Company in Britain  is Asos valued at 13billion USD

The Biggest Internet Company in Israel  Checkpoint, valued at 13billion USD

The Biggest Internet Company in Germany  is Rocket Internet ,valued at 6.8billion USD

The Biggest Internet Company in Argentina is Mercadolibre which is valued at $6.3billion

The above chart  published by economist magazine shows the top  consumer Internet companies across each nations .The data  depicts the  valuations of internet companies across the top 10 nations reflect the valuation  across the top 10 nations. 

Of the 50 countries they examined, 30 have at least one internet company worth more than $1 billion. The internet firms  outside America and China are still relatively small: Google’s market capitalization, for instance, is bigger than the value of the top internet firms in all other 48 countries combined. And worryingly for Europe, of the top five countries with firms with the highest valuations, none is European—but three are Asian.

How UBER is eating its competitors for breakfast lunch and dinner :

This is how  cab aggregator "UBER" is marching ahead in the market

Uber is having yellow, green and yes service cabs and taxis for breakfast lunch and dinner. The chart from WSJ shows how " Uber has begun to disrupt this model

Uber Now is present across  63 countries across the world, out of which according to a Wall Street Journal post says that “an average 46 percent of all total paid car rides were through Uber” in major markets across the U.S. That’s a steep rise from a mere 15 percent in the first quarter of 2014. Meanwhile, the percentage of rides in taxis, limos and shuttles fell from 85 percent to 53 percent over the same period.


Looking back " the  challenge which local mom and pop cab services "it seems is a grand old throwback to " newspaper vs internet days.. when the newspaper  industry never really accepted the " fact that " new media can supplant them and make them" irrelevant. As web continued to dominate  and penetrate new markets, gaining volume.... Consumers had already moved on from newspapers to news portals, specific niches ( tabloids) or online magazine subscription. And by the time the newspaper industry read the riot act... it was too late . and no little to be done anyways..The market had changed


Uber is now available in 58 countries and 300 cities worldwide, and recent estimates place its value in the region of $50bn. All of which rather leaves its competition with two choices… Adapt, or die.”

American CEO's with most generous compensation packages

These are the top 10 highest paid jobs

The average American makes $50,000 to $70,000 per year. The lowest-compensated person on this list — a breakdown of America’s 25 highest-compensated executives — made $44.3 million in 2014. In America.. the CEO-to-employee pay ratios, numbers can be sometimes be as lopsided as 738-to-1. Globally this might be more

 To put that in context, the typical American would have to work 738 years straight to match the 2014 compensation for David C. Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer and senior vice president of corporate development.The following table breaks down each of the 25 highest-paid executives in America, complete with the year-over-year change in compensation, where available. The data comes from the SEC and is visualized by FindTheCompany.

decreasing bounce rates by using instagram photos in your email marketing campaigns

how social buttons increase email marketing effectiveness".Lessons from Nike

how Instagram can be used to decrease bounce rates and increase engagement

According to a recent conducted study by Curalate and the Internet Marketing Association, only 8% are using social media images and posts to drive email marketing tweet

Instagram's popularity as a social media photo sharing site is a great opportunity for marketers to use them as a social email marketing strategy. the study also revealed that For example, while 76% of emails include social media buttons, just 14% of emails are being optimized with social images. and , Instagram images are used within emails less than 3% of the time

A recent fitness retail brand delivered a 7X lift in engagement with product photos on their website just 24 hours after sending their first Instagram integrated email..

Tesla Motors list of awards in the auto industry

lInspite of almost zero spends on advertising, its product Tesla model X received spectacular coverage across the mainstream mesi , Motors does no advertising at all, it is heavily covered in the press. And, since launching in 2012, the Tesla Model S has accumulated an astounding number of awards and accolades. In fact, THE NUMBER OF awards it has won...is mindbogling

The infographics show the number of  awards shown by  So we decided to highlight our favorites over the past three years in an easy-to-digest in Tesla

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what AOL vs NETFLIX showdown can teach technology companies

The chart represents a tale of 2 economies and how they have changed with the digital revolution ecosystem
The chart represents the showdown : NETFLIX vs AOL..It explains the rise of Netflix ' powered by " transformation of technology" which has has fueled its growth from 2.7 to 29 million subscribers in the span of just eight years, adapting and changing its business model from simply being a repository for content into a curator and now, creator, of original content

In just over a decade, AOL has gone from 27 million monthly subscribers to just 2.7 million.At the same time, Netflix's subscriber base has grown more than tenfold

The AOL vs Netflix chart reflects how the 2 economies have influenced media consumption over the last decade in the US Its a study of contrast in how these compared have undergone a revolution and how they have done , post the digital mobile web revolution.

. Although AOL and Netflix are two different businesses — AOL shifted from being an ISP to a media company and Netflix has shifted from being a pure rental service to a digital content network — it's clear that Netflix has done a much better job at moving with technology and adapting its business model moving forward

Facebook Social Signal Tool could signal the death knell for print media

In what could be a " death knell to a already fledging newspaper  and print industry, Facebook introduced a social signal platform that allows journalists to discover,find and  embed news content    as it tries to  entice news reports and journalists " to  use Facebook as a content syndication tool as a vital part of their news gathering process

The tool, which pulls from both Facebook and Instagram, allows journalists the opportunity “to make Facebook a cornerstone  more vital part of their news gathering with access to relevant trends, photos, videos, and posts on Facebook and Instagram for use in their storytelling and reporting”
Announcing this in a  blog post Andy Mitchell, Director of Media Partnerships
Last week Facebook introduced its Mentions app to all of its verified profiles, allowing journalists and celebrities the opportunity to broadcast live video streams and create posts that only go out to their followers.
This annoucement follows Facebook launching its Mention App

 

How SAP HANA is revolutionising retail forecasting and big data analysis

 

How Sap hana is changing Retail Industry Inventory forecasting from Sumit Roy

compilation of social media salaries by expertise and location across top 100 digital marketers

SOCIAL MEDIA SALARIES : LEVELS OF COMPENSATION BENEFITS BY SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLSETS

Based on the list of compilation of top 100 digital marketers
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