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Twitter has just delivered its first major business update with new CEO Parag Agrawal at the helm. Its average monetizable daily active users (mDAU) rose to 217 million, a modest increase of 13 percent year over year, but below the 218.6 million some analysts expected, CNBC reports. Twitter added just six million new mDAUs since laster quarter: one million in the US and five million internationally. Overall revenue from 2021 was $5.08 billion, an increase of 37 percent year on year. Although the lines are all pointing in the right direction, Twitter has been hoping to grow far more rapidly than this. By the end of 2023, Twitter has said it hopes to hit 315 million average monetizable daily active users. If it continues to add users at this rate each quarter, it will fall well short of this goal. However, despite the challenges facing Agrawal, the company is sticking with its previous goal. “There are no changes to our goals of 315 million average mDAU in Q4 2023,” the company’s CFO Ned Segal said in a statement. The update comes as Agrawal has pledged to speed up development at the company. After his appointment was announced in late November,…

Longtime Raptors reporter Doug Smith will share his NBA trade deadline analysis and answer your burning questions on Thursday afternoon.By Star StaffWed., Feb. 9, 2022timer1 min. readAs NBA trade news and rumours continue to spark across the Twitter timeline, basketball fans are sitting in suspense as Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET trade deadline looms. What does that mean for the Toronto Raptors? How about Goran Dragic? What else might we see across the NBA?Longtime Raptors reporter and basketball expert Doug Smith will be sharing his analysis and answering your questions in a live show on Twitter Spaces before the deadline. Hosted by basketball culture journalist Libaan Osman, the Star will be talking to fans Thursday, Feb. 10, starting at 1:30 p.m. on Twitter Spaces.Tune into the chat by following (@)StarSports on Twitter and accessing Twitter Spaces, a free audio chat room. Find Twitter Spaces at the top of the Star’s Twitter profile, or by clicking the Spaces icon on your screen.You can set a reminder on your Twitter page here.JOIN THE CONVERSATION Anyone can read Conversations, but to contribute, you should be registered Torstar account holder. If you do not yet have a Torstar account, you can create one now (it…

In Los Angeles—like the startup environment at large—venture funding and valuations skyrocketed in 2021, even as the coronavirus pandemic continued to surge and supply chain issues rattled the economy. The result was a startup ecosystem that continued to build on its momentum, with no shortage of companies raising private capital at billion-dollar-plus unicorn valuations. In order to gauge the local startup scene and who’s leading the proverbial pack, we asked more than 30 leading L.A.-based investors for their take on the hottest firms in the region. They responded with more than two dozen venture-backed companies; three startups, in particular, rose above the rest as repeat nominees, while we've organized the rest by their amount of capital raised as of January, according to data from PitchBook. (We also asked VCs not to pick any of their own portfolio companies, and vetted the list to ensure they stuck to that rule.)Without further ado, here are the 26 L.A. startups that VCs have their eyes on in 2022. ​1. Whatnot ($225.4 million raised)Whatnot was the name most often on the minds of L.A. venture investors—understandably, given its prolific fundraising year. Whatnot raised some $220 million across three separate funding rounds in 2021, on the…

Are YOU a young homeowner? Email: james.gant@mailonline.co.uk Kirstie Allsopp has sparked a heated debated after suggesting young people could afford to buy a house if they quit Netflix, gym memberships and coffee.The TV presenter told a newspaper over the weekend youngsters would be able to afford their own place if they cut out the subscriptions.She said they could move in with their parents for three years to save or find homes in cheaper areas up north if they are struggling.Allsopp acknowledge it required 'enormous sacrifices' but said it 'enraged' her when people claimed they simply could not afford to buy.Some social media users joked cutting back their expenditure - which came to around £30 per month - would do little to help them get on the housing ladder.But others backed the Location Location Location star and told their stories of stopping excess spending.The Location, Location, Location star (pictured) was told online people were giving up the luxuries so they could afford to 'live in a bin' 'How I bought a house at NINETEEN': Mother tells how she got on the property ladder Vicki Brown, now 48, bought her first place when she was just 19A mother of three has backed Kirstie Allsopp…

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Ryan Wargel, who coaches teenage baseball players in Evansville, Indiana, was flipping through videos of kids whose swings he didn’t like. He was going through so quickly that he didn’t notice the one that wasn’t a kid at all. A few replies later, Wargel was on his way to Twitter infamy as the “Coach Who Shredded Mike Trout’s Swing.” Rather than simply deleting his Tweets or claiming that he was just being sarcastic – like almost all of the other replies to the Tweet asking for critiques of the unnamed player – Wargel fell on his sword. The good-natured way he handled it all apparently earned him some points with Trout, who later on Monday sent his team a shipment of baseball gear. “I tell my guys all the time, ‘Own up to your mistakes,’” Wargel said by phone on Monday. “Don’t back down from something. Own up to your mistakes. So I wasn’t going to sit back and say this never happened.” Wargel’s ability to cheerfully accept the fun at his expense led to his Tweets going viral, which he figured might have a silver lining. If people on Twitter clicked on his account and saw more information on…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s campaign sparked controversy for lashing out at a high school student on Twitter, revealing the 17-year-old's name and photo after they shared a news story about part of the governor's mansion where slaves once lived.The student, Ethan Lynne, retweeted a Richmond public radio station's report Saturday that suggested Youngkin might be scrapping efforts pursued under two previous governors to highlight the history of enslaved people at the mansion, The Washington Post reported Sunday.The radio station's report contained an error, which Lynne noted on Twitter hours later after the station issued a correction.By then, “Team Youngkin,” the official Twitter account for the governor's campaign, had posted a photo of Lynne with former Gov. Ralph Northam at a Democratic fundraiser in October.“Here’s a picture of Ethan with a man that had a Blackface/KKK photo in his yearbook,” Team Youngkin tweeted shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday, pairing the October photo with a racist picture from Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook that surfaced in 2019.Democrats responded immediately, calling on Youngkin to apologize to Lynne. The attack on Northam drew less notice, since Northam is a public figure and adult, although it ran counter to Youngkin’s…

Manchester City’s under-18s side annihilated their Leeds United counterparts with a 8-3 win on Saturday afternoon. The Blues, who lead the u18 Premier League North by six points, took to Thorp Arch Grange in Leeds to deliver a harsh lesson to their Yorkshire opponents. After a busy first-half which ended 3-2 to the away side, City turned on the style by scoring a sensational five goals in the remaining 45 minutes. And their dominance was to such an extent that even the official Man City academy account lost track of the actual score, incorrectly tweeting that the match had finished 7-3. Man City were far too good for Leeds on the day The error was duly picked up on by confused fans, before the admin eventually realised their mistake. After deleting the original tweet, they posted: “FULL TIME Leeds United u18s 3-8 Manchester City u18s. A big win for Ben Wilkinson’s side! GET IN.” But the mistake had already been spotted, prompting a fan to joke: “How many full-times you gonna tweet.” City’s dominant performance came courtesy of William Dickson, Josh Adam and Jadel Katongo to put the Blues 3-2 in front. Do you think Manchester City have the best…

Former cricketers and others congratulated India on social media for winning the U-19 World Cup on Saturday. India beat England by four wickets to clinch the U-19 World Cup title for the fifth time.V. V. S. Laxman, who is with the team in the Caribbean, hailed India's resilience and character to tide over a COVID-19 outbreak within the squad. On Twitter, he wrote: "Wonderful display of resilience and character! So proud of the boys, it's been great spending time with the Under-19 team and watching them grow. This is just the beginning, I am confident they will go on to bigger things in time to come." Covid hit their camp during the WC and at one point had only 12 to choose from. Yet the intensity didn't drop amidst adversity. Won every game, that too clinically. Proud of the team. Special congratulations to @VVSLaxman281, Hrishikesh, Sairaj, Manish & other staff #U19CWC pic.twitter.com/t1tQpRv3pT— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) February 6, 2022 Tamil Nadu and India player Dinesh Karthik said the team had made the country proud. He tweeted: "A six to seal the deal! So so happy for all of you... you all have made us proud! Many congratulations, Team India." Mithali Raj…