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    Twitter to sell its mobile ad unit for $1-billion

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    Twitter said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell mobile ad company MoPub to a company called AppLovin for US$1.05-billion in cash, as the microblogging platform looks to focus more on advertisements on its own app and website.

    MoPub, which generated about $188-million in annual revenue for Twitter last year, allows companies to keep track of ad inventory in real time, similar to Google’s DoubleClick.

    “The sale of MoPub positions us to concentrate more of our efforts on the massive potential for ads on our website and in our apps,” Twitter chief financial officer Ned Segal said.

    The sale will allow Twitter to invest in the core products that position it for long-term growth

    Twitter said on Wednesday it will focus on its core business by accelerating development of new products and features to achieve its goal of doubling its revenue in 2023 to $7.5-billion.

    The MoPub deal comes months after Apple updated its mobile operating system that powers iPhones and iPads to make it hard for digital advertisers, including social media platforms and mobile game developers, to track users on Apple mobile devices.

    The sale will allow Twitter to invest in “the core products that position it for long-term growth”, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Wednesday. The social media company bought MoPub for nearly $350-million in 2013.

    Twitter has made a series of deals for privately held tech firms this year, including podcast app Breaker and e-mail newsletter start-up Revue, as it looks to reach its 2023 revenue goal.

    AppLovin, which went public in April, is a mobile gaming company with a portfolio that includes more than 200 free-to-play mobile games, such as Word Connect, Slap Kings and Bingo Story.

    The company’s shares were up 9% at $84 in extended trading, while Twitter rose 2% to $62.57.  — Reported by Manas Mishra, Subrat Patnaik and Niket Nishant, (c) 2021 Reuters



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