Twitter may be in talks to acquire contextual keyword bidding platform AdGrok for less than $10 million, according to a TechCrunch report. While AdGrok aims to simplify search engine marketing campaigns , the platform could be adapted and used by Twitter to help monetize promoted and trending tweets. Purchasing AdGrok could alleviate some of the criticism many have had toward Twitter, which lags far behind the competition in developing a clear advertising strategy for the site

Twitter may be in talks to acquire contextual keyword bidding platform AdGrok for less than $10 million, according to a TechCrunch report. While AdGrok aims to simplify search engine marketing campaigns , the platform could be adapted and used by Twitter to help monetize promoted and trending tweets

Folks, my apologies for coming late to the following: Goldman Sachs’s Simona Jankowski today reiterated a Buy rating on shares of Motorola Mobility ( MMI ), and a $34 price target, writing that the stock is undervalued based on a sum-of-the-parts analysis, and that upside in smartphone sales could boost the bottom line.

Finnish game developer Supercell has raised $12 million in funding for its hardcore real-time social gaming business. The investment shows the increasing appetite for investments in social games, especially those that hope to one-up dominant social game companies such as Zynga by providing a next-generation style of game play on platforms such as Facebook. Accel Partners, which led the $42 million investment in Angry Birds developer Rovio, led the round

Twitter has finalized its acquisition of immensely popular third-party client TweetDeck, according to a report by CNN Money . The report says the deal is worth more than $40 million in a mix of a cash and stock. A few weeks ago , TechCrunch reported the first tidbits of the deal.

Twitter has finalized its acquisition of immensely popular third-party client TweetDeck, according to a report by CNN Money . The report says the deal is worth more than $40 million in a mix of a cash and stock

Twitter has finalized its acquisition of immensely popular third-party client TweetDeck, according to a report by CNN Money . The report says the deal is worth more than $40 million in a mix of a cash and stock. A few weeks ago , TechCrunch reported the first tidbits of the deal

Twitter has finalized its acquisition of immensely popular third-party client TweetDeck, according to a report by CNN Money .

Twitter has finalized its acquisition of immensely popular third-party client TweetDeck, according to a report by CNN Money .

Startup Impact Dialing has found that it pays to go lean. As the winner of the Lean Startup Challenge run by AppSumo , the company has now received an undisclosed amount of angel funding from the Band of Angels group, and it has also been accepted as a member of incubator Pivotal Labs.