Except for the likes of Facebook, a hugely popular social-networking site, most Web 2.0 start-ups can only dream of making such substantial sums-and will never go public.
Now, the penetration and impact of social media is such that failing to understand what consumers are saying about a company online has become a business risk.
They measured levels of a byproduct of cigarette fumes in the kids' saliva to gauge smoke exposure and had parents fill out a questionnaire about the kids' emotional, behavioral and social problems.
In 2015, the wechat business has been doing all they can, when the online traffic and social chain was dried up, compete in 2016 May be offline traffic.
So retailers are doing all they can in that particular area, it's marketing on social media sites, trying to get out the deals on those platforms as well.
Rats and other animals need to be highly at tuned to social signals from others so that they can identify friends to cooperate with and enemies to avoid.
Like the big public networks, these custom-made ones typically allow employees to see who else is active, set up project groups and exchange stuff among themselves.
Beyond simply using social media tools in PR campaigns, PR executives have the opportunity to showcase their human side and demonstrate their thinking on a day-to-day basis.