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Twitter valued at $3.7 bn after raising $200 mn
MUMBAI: Twitter is valued at $3.7 billion following a financing deal in which the microblogging site has raised $200 million.
Tech blog AllThingsDigital first reported the $200 million funding round.
In a post on its corporate blog Twitter said, “As part of a significant new round of funding with investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and existing investors, we‘ve added two new members to Twitter‘s board of directors.”
The blog also said that, “the renewed investment will help us continue to grow as a company and business”.
The other investors include Insight Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley and Spark Capital.
The addition of two new board members – FlipBoard chief executive Mike McCue and DoubleClick CEO David Rosenblatt – comes two months after the company assigned the post of chief executive to Dick Costolo, the architect of its new advertising plans.
“2010 was one of the most meaningful years since Twitter was founded in 2007. We operate on a principle that people are basically good-when you give them a simple way to express this trait, they prove it to you every day,” the company said in the official post.
Twitter is one of the new crop of rapidly growing Internet social networking sites with nearly 175 million users as of September.
The blog also said, “In the past 12 months, Twitter users sent an astonishing 25 billion tweets and we added more than 100 million new registered accounts.”
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With 57 per cent single new users, Ashley Madison rebrands as discreet dating platform
Platform says majority of new members now identify as single
INDIA: Ashley Madison is shedding the “married-dating” label that defined it for two decades, repositioning itself as a platform for discreet dating in what it calls the post-social media age.
The rebrand, unveiled in India on 27 February, 2026, marks a structural shift in business model and identity. Once synonymous with married dating, the company now describes itself as the “premier destination for discreet dating” under a new tagline: Where Desire Meets Discretion.
The pivot is data-driven. Internal figures show that 57 per cent of global sign-ups between 1 January and 31 December, 2025 identified as single: a notable departure from the platform’s married core. The company argues that its community has already evolved beyond its original positioning.
“In an age where our lives have been constantly put on public display, privacy has become the new luxury,” said Ashley Madison chief strategy officer Paul Keable. He framed the platform’s offering as “ethical discretion” for singles, separated, divorced and non-monogamous users seeking private connections.
The shift also taps into wider digital fatigue. A global survey conducted by YouGov for Ashley Madison, covering 13,071 adults across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US, found mounting discomfort with hyper-public online lives.
Among dating app users, 30 per cent cited constant swiping and messaging as a source of fatigue, while 24 per cent pointed to pressure to curate public-facing profiles and early personal disclosure. Some 27 per cent said fears of screenshots or information being shared contributed to exhaustion; an equal share cited unwanted attention.
The retreat from oversharing appears broader. According to the survey, 46 per cent of adults actively try to keep most aspects of their life private online. Only 8 per cent feel comfortable sharing most aspects publicly, while 35 per cent say they are becoming more selective about what they disclose.
Ashley Madison is betting that this cultural recalibration towards controlled visibility can be monetised. By doubling down on privacy infrastructure and reframing itself around discretion rather than infidelity, the company is attempting to convert reputational baggage into a premium proposition.
