LinkedIn have released their Q2 results for 2013 and it's good news all round. Revenues are up 59%, compared to Q2 2012 at $363 million (£240 million) while profits are also up to $3.7 million (£2.4 million), compared to $2.8 million (£1.8 million) last year. The professional network now has 238 million users.
Instagram Adds Video
Today's event by Facebook was to introduce a new feature to Instagram - Video. Users will now be able to record 15 seconds of video from with in the Instagram app, in a similar fashion to Vine.
The new feature is slightly more fiddly as you have to press the video icon to then switch to video rather than doing it the snapchat way where you simply hold down the photo button. Each segment that's recorded can be individually deleted and there is a great stabilisation feature.
In true Instagram fashion you can add filters to your finished video to give it a different look. Videos can be viewed on Instagram web too.
During the event Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of Instagram announced that there are now 130 million active users of the photo sharing network with 16 billion photos uploaded in the two and half years since it's launch.
Instagram video is available now on iOS and Android. Simply update the Instagram app.
Facebook Send Invites for 20 June Event
Facebook have sent out invites to the media for an event they will hold on 20th June. Facebook have made a habit of holding events recently with the launch of Facebook Home on Android and the release of the redesigned timelines and graph search.
Twitter opens Analytics to all
Twitter analytics and ads have been opened up to all users. Although it's still only possible to advertise to users in the US the analytics is a great new tool for all businesses and power users, even if they don't advertise. The analytics shows the number of RTs, replies and favourites for every tweet and tweets can be ranked by 'Best', 'Good' and 'All' to see what tweets get the greatest response from followers. It's available via ads.twitter.com.
Facebook gets hashtags
Facebook have announced they will now support hashtags with the aim of making posts and conversations more social.