Twitter on Thursday managed to beat analysts' third-quarter earnings expectations. It reported that average monthly active users were up 3% to 317 million. But the good news ended there. Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley

Wall Street has its eye on the programmatic sector -- but, according to Youssef Squali, head of Cantor Fitzgerald's Internet & media equity research, many ad-tech companies are stuck in … Read the full story by Tobi Elkin

Vine, the six-second video app started by Twitter just three years ago, will fold in the next few months. Read the full story by P.J. Bednarski

Ad tech firm AppNexus announced the promotion of Ryan Christensen to chief operations officer and the appointment of Ben John to chief technology officer, a newly created role. In addition, … Read the full story by Tobi Elkin

Media researcher BIA/Kelsey says overall local media advertising will grow 2.4% to $148.8 billion. There will be 2.4% decline next year for traditional print and over-the-air advertising revenues, hitting $98.6 … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

Mobile engagement platform SITO Mobile on Thursday announced a data partnership with marketing technology firm Ayuda[x] Inc. to offer real-time mobile location data to advertising agencies and brand marketers. Read the full story by Tobi Elkin

'Quartzy,' a weekly email newsletter, is focused on culture, fashion, food, travel, art and personal care. Quartz also launched its first non-English language product, in the form of a newsletter … Read the full story by Sara Guaglione

Evergage expanded its multichannel personalization capabilities on Wednesday with the launch of Evergage for Mobile Apps, extending its platform to Android devices and in-app messaging. Based just outside of Boston, … Read the full story by Jess Nelson

Top platforms are rushing to meet demand for more secure lines of communication. To that end, Facebook has reportedly finished rolling out one-to-one "secret conversations" to all of its 900 … Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley