Twitter reported a stunning 79% increase in revenue in the second quarter, its faster rate of topline growth since 2014 and a sign of how the digital ad market is lifting all boats. Twitter had been expected to deliver 55% growth over the year-earlier period, when its revenue fell 19% thanks to the impact of the pandemic on its ad business. But the actual result was meaningfully better:...
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Pro Weekly: Insights From The Information 50 Database

Welcome back! The Information 50 is our guide to promising startups, which we’ve published each year since 2020. Now we’ve brought together the 150 startups we’ve identified over the past three years, with added information about how they’ve fared since. The Information 50 Startups Database, which we published Thursday, details each company’s total fundraising and most recent...
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