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Twitter Adds First Female To Board, After Criticism

Twitter (TWTR) has appointed its first female director, former publishing executive Marjorie Scardino, effective immediately. The microblog had been criticized for having no women on its board of directors or among its executive staff. The addition of Scardino increased Twitter’s board to eight members. Its nine-member management team has one woman, Vijaya Gadde, who joined Twitter three months ago as general counsel and secretary. On Thursday,

For Tech IPOs Post Twitter, Big Debuts Seen In 2014

With Twitter now trading and nothing in the immediate tech IPO pipeline that’s nearly as hot, attention shifts to 2014, when some big names are expected to go public. The biggest initial public offering on deck is China e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, with its IPO likely to exceed the Facebook (FB) blockbuster in May 2012 that raised $16 billion. Other big-name techs expected to debut include Square, Dropbox, Box and Pinterest. The Twitter (TWTR)

Smartphone owners hooked on Facebook, Twitter, Candy Crush

Facebook might no longer be cool with teenagers, but it’s far and away the most popular app on smartphones overall. A survey by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows Facebook dominating mobile apps, with four times the usage of the next most popular app, Twitter. CIRP surveyed 500 people who activated a mobile phone in the third quarter and asked them to name their three most frequently used mobile apps. Facebook (FB) was No. 1 with 45% of smartphone users, followed by Twitter (TWTR)with 13% and King’s addictive video game “Candy Crush Saga” with 11%. “Facebook just dominates mobile phones, in terms of most frequent use, not just downloads,” CIRP co-founder and partner Mike Levin said in a statement Wednesday. “For most other apps, including some well-known ones like YouTube and Pandora (P), fewer than 10% of phone buyers included them among the most frequently used.” When you look at …