Social site-maker RebelMouse locks down a $10M first round of funding

The pages you can create on RebelMouse are good-looking out of the box, and they’re also customizable, thanks to a WYSIWYG editor.

How Facebook went from sucking at mobile to killing at mobile in 12 short months

“Every single year we’re heard people say ‘this is the year of mobile,” Nanigans SVP Dan Slagen told me, laughing. “But this is the first time we’ve seen someone come forward and put forward the kind of number Facebook did.”

How these photographers are making a living on Instagram

The most influential Instagram artists are eking out partnerships with brands, and making thousands of dollars in a day.

What’s trending on Twitter now? The Middle Ages

First the Pope, now the royal baby. Are there any institutions in the world so antiquated that they can’t find a way to embrace social media?

How Chevy’s Corvette Stingray scored 87M impressions and 5M video views via Twitter and YouTube

You knew the launch of the first Corvette to bear the Stingray badge of honor since 1976 would be a big deal in social media. The Corvette, after all, is America’s iconic, beautiful, and above all powerful sports car.

Vir2o takes on Facebook, Google +, Path to combat Internet loneliness

Vir2o wants to be the “local pub and community center” of the Internet. The startup launched a new social media platform today and revealed that is is backed by $1 million in seed financing.

Bitstrips bootstraps social comics on Facebook to 10M users and 50M unique cartoons

Zero to ten million users in less than seven months might just make social cartoon startup Bitstrips the hottest startup you’ve never heard of.

Facebook by the numbers: who buys ads, which games make more money

“Facebook really represents an opportunity to connect over 900 million people,â€? said engineering director Doug Purdy, “but we hope one day for it to be the entire world.â€?

Reddit punches far above its weight as only 6% of online adults use it (but 11% of Hispanics)

Reddit, the self-styled “front page of the internet” that has can send floods of traffic to unsuspecting sites and has luminaries like President Obama visiting to answer questions directly from the great unwashed, is only visited by six percent of online American adults, according to the Pew Research Center.

How the top 25 YouTube channels earned 144B views, 520M comments, and 1B likes

If you want to go big on YouTube, you don’t want do be a big corporate brand or repurpose content from the nightly news. You do want to be in the gaming, entertainment, or comedy industries. And you most definitely want to have something to say.

Twitter adds 5 new Ads API partners to go hard-core social marketing — and hard-core enterprise

Twitter’s first five Ads API partners were dominated by hardcore digital advertisers. Its newest five API partners are dominated by hardcore enterprise-focused social media marketing firms.

HootSuite adds SurveyMonkey, ChartBeat to app directory while passing 7M user mark

Social media management utility HootSuite added the most popular online survey tool, SurveyMonkey, to its app directory today, along with real-time visual traffic analysis tool Chartbeat.

And, almost as an aside, the company stated that it has now passed seven million users.

Facebook explodes PTAT, giving page owners more data — and marketers clues about news feed visibility

Facebook page owners have long yearned for more insight than PTAT — Facebook’s people talking about this metric — offers. Starting today, they’re getting their wish.

Facebook now has 1M active advertisers

Facebook announced today that the company now has one million active advertisers — companies or organizations that have advertised on the social network at least once in the last 28 days.

Twitter’s Vine is killing it, but #Music dropped 62% in May

Twitter’s two major product launches 0f 2013 are heading in vastly different directions.

Social media’s impact on TV isn’t that big, new study finds

Social media’s impact on television watching is small compared to traditional marketing and communications but has the potential to grow quickly, according to new findings from a study conducted by the Center for Research Excellence (CRE).

Steve Case’s $20M investment in Lolly Wolly Doodle proves the value of social commerce

“Most of what happens in social commerce is that the larger companies are looking at social opportunities through the prism of the past,” Steve Case explains. “They have the view that it’s ancillary, a curiosity, an extra.”

You can now access your official Twitter engagement statistics (but don’t bother)

Sometimes there is a reason companies do things under the radar.