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| Nov 23, 2016 | Didi Chuxing, the Uber of China, signs up to help find missing children | Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (Didi) is the latest company to embrace AMBER alerts for missing children, following the launch of the system in China back in May with internet behemoth Alibaba.
Above: Didi Chuxing: AMBER Alerts
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| Oct 14, 2015 | Uber drivers to receive AMBER alerts for missing children across the U.S. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Uber is the latest tech company to introduce AMBE... |
| Oct 14, 2015 | Uber drivers to receive AMBER alerts for missing children across the U.S. | Uber is the latest tech company to introduce AMBER alerts to help find missing children.
A product of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), AMBER alerts, which have been used in the U.S. since 1996, is a system e... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Facebook Will Start Showing Mobile AMBER Alerts To Help Find Missing Kids | Your phone probably already receives AMBER alerts when a kid goes missing in your area. Most smartphones are configured to allow it right out of the box.
But Facebook thinks they can help make the system better — and starting today, they’re... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | Microsoft adds AMBER missing children alerts to Bing search queries | Google has integrated AMBER alerts into a number of its products, including Search, for a while already. Now, Microsoft has revealed it is integrating the child abduction broadcasts into its Bing search engine.
AMBER alerts have been used i... |
| Nov 26, 2014 | Soci Raises $1.5M to Expand Social Media Management System | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As marketers become more sophisticated about the use of social media, Afif Khoury says it’s clear that increasing the size of your fan base can be a misleading statistic. It’s... |
| Nov 14, 2014 | Facebook Will Monetize Games With Ads, Not Messenger | How is Facebook going to monetize Messenger? Not by featuring games in the app like Korea’s KakaoTalk, at least for now. Instead, Facebook could concentrate on solving new problems with Messenger.
When I pressed Facebook’s EMEA Director of ... |
| Oct 24, 2014 | The Groups App I Wish Facebook Would Build | About once a week, if not more, I find myself typing these words or something similar on Facebook: “I just PM’d you, check your ‘Other’ inbox.” Or, “sorry, I’m on mobile, I can’t get to the ‘Other’ inbox right now.” Or sometimes, just “bump... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | Facebook targets consumers with location-based ads | Facebook is expanding its mobile advertising options with new local awareness ads, intended to lure potential consumers and their cash to nearby businesses.
The location-based ads will be available to advertisers in the U.S. over the coming... |
| Oct 7, 2014 | Facebook Launches Hyper-Local Ads Targeted To People Within A Mile Of A Business | Facebook’s mobile ubiquity and push for always-on location sharing came to fruition today with the launch of hyper-local advertising that could convince people to visit stores they’re nearby. Soon, brick-and-mortar businesses will be able t... |
| Sep 25, 2014 | Instagram’s Hyperlapse Gets Front-Facing Camera Support | A new update – version 1.1 – for Instagram’s Hyperlapse app is available in Apple’s App store, and it adds what must have been a commonly requested feature – support for front-facing cameras.
The app now encourages you to “record a selfiela... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | Codenamed “Moments”, Facebook Has Built An App For Super-Private Sharing | Facebook has failed repeatedly to get us to use complicated lists and privacy settings to share intimate moments with just our closest friends and family. It’s clumsy and confusing doing that with the same composer for blasting News Feed up... |
| Jul 11, 2014 | Is Your Facebook Response Rate Up To Snuff? | As social media engagement on Facebook rises, response rates from brands are slipping. Brands are struggling to get their messages in front of users thanks to a decline in organic reach of Page posts, but are they responding to their custom... |
| Jul 7, 2014 | Facebook Shows Pages’ Rankings To Admins | Some Facebook Page admins are seeing a new ranking display on their Pages, which shows how they rank compared to their competitors.
For example, if your’e the fifth most popular business of your type in your town, it will show you that. Luc... |
| Jul 3, 2014 | Facebook Tells Page Admins About Discrepancy In Engagement And Reach Metrics | Facebook has not been delivering accurate reach and engagement metrics to Page admins.
Some admins have been getting a message on their dashboard that says, “There is a discrepancy in the engagement and reach metrics for all Page Posts and ... |
| Jun 19, 2014 | Is Paying Facebook For Promotion Worth It? | Facebook has all but killed the organic reach of your Page posts, leaving you with no choice but to hope for referrals from content your users share or pay them for exposure.
Now, there are concerns that it’s getting more expensive to adver... |
| Jun 9, 2014 | The Ridiculous Amount Of Stuff That Happens On Facebook In A Minute | Have you ever stopped to think about just how much activity really happens on Facebook and throughout its network of connected sites and apps? Can you really even fathom it? Can you even begin to imagine how much happens around the globe in... |
| May 22, 2014 | Facebook Stops Irresponsibly Defaulting Privacy Of New Users’ Posts To “Public”, Changes To “Friends” | After years of putting new users at risk of oversharing by defaulting the visibility of their status updates and photos to public, Facebook is switching the default to “friends”. It will also start asking existing users to go through a “Pri... |
| May 13, 2014 | Mobile messaging app Blink to vanish as Yahoo buys it | Yahoo is buying an ephemeral mobile messaging app for itself, Blink. But a Yahoo-branded version of the app isn’t necessarily on the way.
The company behind Blink, Meh Labs, will discontinue the app for Android and iOS devices, according to... |
| May 5, 2014 | Oculus CEO Says Selling To Facebook Convinced Big Developers To Build For It | “Do we want to be Game Boy, or iPhone or Android?” That’s how Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe says his team considered the acquisition by Facebook. Without the financial backing, Oculus may have had to scale back its ambitions. But now, big develo... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Free to fail: Why corporates are learning to love venture capital | Opening a venture capital branch seems to be the new “thing” in the corporate world. While Telstra and Westpac are the new big national players, Google is clearly ahead of the curve, with two distinct venture capital firms: the newly launch... |
| Apr 17, 2014 | Work4 Raises $7M To Rival Job Sites With Its Social Network-Based Recruitment App | Work4, an online recruitment startup that uses social networks to advertise and find leads for job vacancies, has picked up another $7 million in funding that it plans to use to expand further into markets outside the U.S., and the scope of... |
| Mar 27, 2014 | This Infographic Teaches You About Facebook’s News Feed Image Sizes | You may have noticed some changes to the way Facebook’s News Feed looks lately. Facebook marketing app Gain has the imaging of the new design figured out, and has put together a pretty interesting infographic (via InsideFacebook) on the sub... |
| Mar 21, 2014 | Facebook Tells You You ‘Missed’ The Stories It Chose Not To Show You | Facebook may be going out of its way to hide more content from users from Pages that they’ve liked, but they’re also testing a way to make sure those users don’t miss some of their friends’ posts.
Inside Facebook and AllFacebook (which are ... |
| Mar 17, 2014 | Facebook v8 For iOS Shoots At Snapchat With Extra Private One-To-Few Photo Sharing | Don’t want all your friends to see your photos? That’s a big reason Snapchat has become so popular, and now Facebook wants to capitalize on more private sharing. Facebook for iOS 8.0, released today, offers an easy “Share with only these fr... |
| Mar 14, 2014 | Facebook’s Secret New “Business Manager” Could Compete With Developer Partners For Marketing Dollars | TechCrunch has discovered a big, unannounced marketing tool from Facebook called Business Manager that lets teams at enterprises and agencies manage multiple ad campaigns and Pages in one interface. There’s just one problem. Business Manage... |
| Mar 8, 2014 | Facebook Has Big Updates To Share, Announces First F8 Developer Conference Since 2011 On 4/30 In SF | Facebook plans to reveal new ways for developers to grow and monetize their apps. Today it announced it will hold its F8 developer conference on April 30th in San Francisco. It will have been almost three years since Facebook’s last F8 when... |
| Feb 24, 2014 | Corporate Investors Move Into The Accelerator Market | Big banks do it, big phone companies do it, and even the biggest entertainment companies do it: After years of neglect, the world’s biggest companies are throwing their weight (and a few dollars) behind new technology startups.
It wasn’t al... |
| Feb 13, 2014 | Facebook Opens Up LGBTQ-Friendly Gender Identity And Pronoun Options | Facebook has just updated to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual “male” and “female” options, users can choose up to 10 different gender definitions to describe themselves out of more than 50 option... |
| Jan 14, 2014 | Zuckerberg Calls Snapchat A “Privacy Phenomenon” | Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook’s innovated by creating a place where people could share what wasn’t shared before, which is also why he thinks Snapchat is important. Today in a low-profile talk at Stanford alongside discussions of the NSA ... |
| Nov 7, 2013 | A Like Is Not Enough: Facebook Tests Star Ratings Displayed On Pages | Facebook is apparently testing displaying star ratings, out of a possible five in total, on Pages on the desktop version of its site, according to a reliable tip received by TechCrunch this morning. Screenshots and live testing show that Fa... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | You’re Not Just The Product, You’re The Ads (And Your Friends Should Thank You) | Word of mouth, sponsored. Trusted recommendations, promoted. Reviews from friends, endorsed. This is the new lexicon of advertising. As the world learns to ignore traditional advertising online, tech giants have found a way to grab people’s... |
| Oct 2, 2013 | Facebook And Cisco Let Brick-&-Mortars Demand Customers Check-In To Get Wi-Fi | Restaurants, hotels, and other businesses are spending a lot to provide customers with free Wi-Fi. Today Facebook and Cisco roll out a way to help any brick-and-mortar recoup its costs by asking users to check-in to get Internet access. Tho... |
| Sep 28, 2013 | Should Facebook Start Its Own Version Of Google Ventures? | Over the past year, Facebook has seen its fair share of departures from employees and executives who are either starting a VC fund or camping out at a firm to figure out what their next startup or company will be. In the past two weeks, pro... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | Facebook Hires Data Privacy Litigator Ashlie Beringer As New Deputy Counsel | Between its struggles with the NSA and negotiations with privacy regulators, Facebook needs a lawyer that can fight to protect its data, and its ability to use yours. So today it announced that its new Deputy Counsel is Ashlie Beringer, a l... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Facebook Will Give Marketers Access To Conversation Data With Richer Identity Details Than Twitter | Facebook knows what you talk about, just like Twitter. But its edge is that it also knows who you are. Facebook’s newest APIs let select news outlets view search and see your public posts, plus it tallies keyword mentions and collects the d... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | Facebook Payments Test Isn’t A PayPal Competitor, It’s A Companion That Fills In Billing Info | Facebook is testing a way to make paying with a credit card easier, but it works with PayPal, not against it as AllThingsD wrote. The feature pre-fills credit card and billing info for making easier purchases through PayPal, Stripe, Braintr... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | Facebook Acquires “Mobile Technologies”, Developer Of Speech Translation App Jibbigo | Facebook’s latest acquisition could help it connect users across language barriers. It has just announced that it’s acquired the team and technology of Pittsburgh’s Mobile Technologies, a speech recognition and machine translation startup t... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Feedly Pro costs $5 per month for secure browsing & article search — and some users already hate it | The heir apparent to Google Reader is trying to pull in some cash.
Feedly this weekend announced Feedly Pro, a $5-per-month version of the service meant for the most hardcore RSS reader users.
With the upgraded version of the service, Feedl... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | Facebook News Feed Event Aug 6 Will Give Much-Needed Rankings Explanation And Reveal What’s Next | Facebook plans to clear up confusion about what appears in the News Feed, announce a ranking algorithm change, and preview the future of the feed at a press event on August 6. The Menlo Park HQ session will be live-streamed to Facebook’s Lo... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | LinkedIn Wants To Ramp Up Ads With An Advertising API Like Twitter’s And Facebook’s; A ‘High Priority’ Says CEO Weiner | LinkedIn, now with 238 million registered users on its social network for the working world, wants to follow in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter and turbo-charge its advertising effort. Speaking during the company’s quarterly earnings ... |
| Jul 31, 2013 | Facebook Takes You Down Memory Lane with New ‘On This Day’ Feed | Facebook is looking to take you on a trip down memory lane by generating a news feed that looks like the one that existed exactly one year in the past.
The new feature is called “On This Day,” and Facebook is testing it with a small subset ... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | Memes Give Facebook Fans A Voice Amidst Comment Chaos | Whispering in a riot is how I would describe commenting on a Facebook Page’s feed posts. No matter how thoughtful they are, your words get drowned out. But a combo of new features is fulfilling Facebook’s promise of two-way conversation.
De... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | Josh Elman, A Product Manager’s Product Manager, Becomes Greylock’s Newest Partner | A key secret to Silicon Valley’s success is its professional class of employees who help build hit startup after hit startup in its formative stages. This know-how in engineering, product design, growth, business development, sales and a ra... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | Bootstrapped Startup Ampush Joins Facebook’s Elite Ranks Of Marketing Developers | Ampush, a bootstrapped social media marketing platform, was named a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer (sPMD) today.
Facebook says being an sPMD is the “highest distinction of excellence,” and that companies are selected if th... |
| Jun 28, 2013 | Behind the top mobile ad publishers: Facebook, Google, Pandora and Twitter | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Publishers like Facebook, Google’s YouTube, and Twitter are reporting an explosion in mobile advertising this year. After years of fals... |
| Jun 28, 2013 | Behind the top mobile ad publishers: Facebook, Google, Pandora and Twitter | Publishers like Facebook, Google’s YouTube, and Twitter are reporting an explosion in mobile advertising this year. After years of false starts, 2013 has become the year of mobile advertising.
Notably, these publishers are doing better than... |
| Jun 27, 2013 | AdTech Star Nanigans Scoops Up Facebook’s Retargeted Ads Director Antonio Garcia-Martinez | Facebook’s just lost some critical business talent. Today, ads product director Gokul Rajaram was poached by Square, and now Facebook Exchange director Antonio Garcia-Martinez, who left in April, has signed on with one of Facebook’s top ad ... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | API Code Could Point To Facebook Building An RSS Reader | Move over Reeder, Feedly, Digg, NewsBlur, Feedbin and the rest of the RSS players who hope to pick up some new users with the impending demise of Google Reader. Facebook may also be looking to wade into the game.
Asked whether Facebook is p... |
| Jun 9, 2013 | Facebook’s New Colocation And Image Recognition Patents Tease The Future Of Sharing | Facebook’s empire was built on photo tags and sharing, but it’s a grueling process many neglect. Luckily, new Facebook patents give it tech to continuously capture video whenever your camera is open, rank and surface the best images, and au... |
| Jun 2, 2013 | Facebook Tries Letting You Message From Homepage Status Box To Battle Google Hangouts | Sources confirm Facebook will test the option to send private messages from its website’s homepage status composer to increase messaging rates. It will also help Facebook compete with Google, whose web chat presence is strong, and just comb... |
| Apr 30, 2013 | Should Facebook Allow Businesses To Give Away Guns? | Pennsylvania gun store Pittsburgh Tactical Firearms was running a giveaway for an AR-15 on Facebook, when the social network shut it down without warning.
Should gun sellers be able to run promotions for guns on Facebook? Let us know what y... |
| Apr 29, 2013 | Facebook Removes ‘Posts by Friends’ Option on Pages | Facebook has removed an option on pages that allowed users to filter recent posts to show only the ones made by friends. As of now, the “Posts by friends” filtering option located on the clickdown menu at the top of pages’ Timelines is gone... |
| Apr 24, 2013 | Facebook Stops Forcing You To Tell Friends When You Claim An Offer | Facebook’s gotten into trouble over the years for auto-sharing e-commerce activity. Determined to avoid another Beacon fiasco or scare people away from Offers they don’t want to tell friends about, Facebook now lets you choose to privately ... |
| Apr 24, 2013 | Google’s Got A Problem. Search Ads Aren’t Just For Search Engines Anymore | The juggernaut that is search advertising grew so popular and lucrative because it offered businesses the ability to reach and persuade people with true purchase intent. But now keyword targeting is available on Twitter and Facebook, which ... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Powerhouse Facebook Ad Platform Nanigans Raises $5.8M Series A.1 For Predictive Modeling R&D | Do you target kids with cheap ads or more expensive adults? Nanigans has just raised a $5.85 million “Series A.1” from Avalon Ventures to build SaaS technology that predicts which audiences earn advertisers more money. With revenue up 6x in... |
| Apr 17, 2013 | Facebook to Display Your Open Groups on Your Timeline | Facebook is adding a new Timeline section to highlight the groups to which you belong. The new Groups section will appear on the About tab on the new Timeline.
Facebook launched their new Timeline design, a one-column format with more focus... |
| Apr 4, 2013 | Will Google Ever Stop Dominating Search? | Google stock is currently taking a hit after reaching an all-time high last month. Any number of factors could be contributors to this, but some think it’s directly related to people’s decreased dependence on finding information with Google... |
| Mar 25, 2013 | Facebook Rolls Out Replies And Threaded Comments On Page Posts And Popular Profiles | Facebook today is rolling out two more features for Pages used by brands and businesses and public Profiles for individuals with more than 10,000 followers: it is adding replies and threaded comments. The move — like Graph Search, designed ... |
| Mar 20, 2013 | To Improve Conversations, Facebook Will Launch A Reply Feature And Most Active Threads On Pages And Popular Profiles | Facebook is preparing to roll out a new feature on Pages and popular Profiles that will help increase interactions with fans and readers: Replies. Up to now, visitors could comment on a post but others, including the Page owners themselves,... |
| Mar 20, 2013 | After Pushing Silent Update To Some, Facebook Releases Updated Android App For All On Google Play | Facebook, in its quest to dominate mobile, has just released an incremental update to its Android app through the Google Play Store.
The update lets users change their profile pictures direct from the app (which is something iOS has been ab... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Facebook No Longer Lets You Unlike Pages Directly from the New News Feed | It appears that Facebook has made a small tweak as a part of the new news feed, which is currently in the middle of a slow, delicate rollout.
It appears that Facebook is putting an obstacle between users and their ability to unlike pages th... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Timeline To Highlight App-Powered Self Expression | Facebook just announced that it’s rolling out a Timeline redesign that will make it easier to show off your favorite books, movies, music, and TV shows, either that you’ve Liked or consumed through apps like Flixster, Netflix, and Goodreads... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Facebook’s About Page Redesign Is A Graph Search Data Grab | Years ago Facebook made a wildly successful data grab by putting About details at the top of the profile. Now with its Timeline redesign‘s “Suggested” sections, Facebook could fill out Graph Search by making it easy to select and show off w... |
| Mar 8, 2013 | Facebook Beefs Up With Acqhire Of Storylane Because It’s Time To Fight Tumblr | Facebook’s no blogging platform, but Tumblr is and it’s eating the social network’s young. If Facebook wants to host our digital lives, it needs richer sharing. That’s Storylane’s specialty, so Facebook’s acqhire of its team sounds like a s... |
| Mar 8, 2013 | Where’s the Ticker in the New Facebook News Feed? Gone, Pretty Much | If you’re one of the lucky few that Facebook has chosen to give access to the new refresh of the news feed, you may notice that something’s missing.
Hey, where the hell is the ticker?
It’s gone. Pretty much. It’s not completely dead, but in... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Facebook Will Launch Content-Specific News Feeds, Bigger Photos And Ads On Thursday | At a big press event on Thursday, Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as well as a revamped Music feed of what friends are listening to, concerts, and new ... |
| Mar 3, 2013 | Facebook’s News Feed, A Skittish Gift Horse | Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured. This and competition for space between posts may ... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Facebook Gifts Sales And Revenue Off To A Slow Start | A billion-dollar business? Maybe not. Despite lofty projections for Facebook Gifts from analysts, reporters and myself, a new report picks apart public statements from the company to suggest it sold a maximum of 667,000 gifts in Q4 2012, an... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Facebook Gives Examples To Jumpstart Usage Of Graph Search, Which It May Have Spent Too Long Building | Photos and the news feed are where people spend their time on Facebook. Yet its last two big products were relatively niche features, Timeline and the new Graph Search. Facebook today published examples of how to use Graph Search, which mer... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Facebook Suggests You Give a Gift When a Friend Posts a Celebratory Status | Facebook is looking to further promote their new Gifts feature by giving it a more prominent placement – in the news feed.
Some users have spotted a “Give a Gift” button attached to certain posts by friends – mainly when they’re sharing goo... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Facebook, 18 Carriers Partner To Use Discounted Messages To Lure New Users, Data Customers | Facebook is deepening its relationships with carriers in emerging markets today with a deal that would bring free or discounted data access for people who use Facebook Messages.
The company has done these types of win-win deals in the past.... |
| Feb 23, 2013 | Facebook adds free voice calling to iOS | Feature was previously only on Messenger, only available in United States and Canada
Mark Zuckerberg has reiterated over and over that Facebook has absolutely no interest in making a Facebook phone. I see this question pop up over and over,... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | Facebook Wants To Make Your Voice Plan Obsolete, Adds Free Calling To Its iOS Application | Following last month’s rollout of free voice calling in its standalone Messenger app, Facebook has today updated its flagship iOS application to offer the same functionality. In the version 5.5 update, which is live now in Apple’s App Store... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | In Exchange For Help Juicing Sales, Twitter And LinkedIn’s Ads APIs Share The Wealth | Tech companies try to stay lean. They don’t want to hire too many sales people, and they can’t build the perfect advertising tool for every buyer. So following in Google and Facebook’s footsteps, today Twitter and in November LinkedIn launc... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | The Insanely Complex Rules The Supreme Court Requires You To Meet To Ask It To Hear Your Case | We recently talked about Aaron Greenspan for his efforts to continue some of the efforts that Aaron Swartz began — freeing up information to legal documents, in particular. However, back in 2007, we also wrote about Greenspan for being yet ... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Exec Launches A Cleaning-Only App, Expands to Seattle As Housework Makes Up 50% Of Sales | Exec — the Y Combinator-backed app that does your errands on-demand — just launched a cleaning-only app. It’s a decision that makes sense as housework has ended up being about 50 percent of the startup’s overall gross sales.
Cleaning has a ... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Facebook’s Friendship Pages Hit Mobile, Coming to Apps Soon | Facebook has begun to roll out their “Friendship Pages” on the mobile web, and they should be appearing on Facebook’s native apps soon.
Friendship pages allow you to view your history with any other user, including your mutual likes, photos... |
| Feb 4, 2013 | Optimal opens up sharing of data to non-subscribers | Data from Optimal Expander can now be shared a maximum of 50 times a month
In order to effectively advertise on social media, brands need insights into the users they are advertising to. They can find out information about what users like, ... |
| Jan 31, 2013 | Ad growth boosts Facebook sales | (MoneyWatch) Facebook (FB) on Wednesday announced fourth-quarter revenue of $1.585 billion, topping average analyst estimates of $1.53 billion, although that included a one-time increase in revenue from payments and other sources because of... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | Facebook Quietly Tightens Its PayPal Payout Policy, Now Requires Extra Authentication To Use It | As Facebook continues to build out the App Center and its overall business as a platform for third parties, it’s also tightening up how payment policies work within it. In one of its latest moves, the company has changed how it pays out to ... |
| Jan 27, 2013 | Twitter Is Finally Preparing To Release Its Advertising API In Q1, Say Sources | People have speculated that 2013 will be the year that Twitter will reach $1 billion in advertising revenues. That strategy could get a boost very soon with the entry of mass-market advertising: Twitter is finally gearing up to launch its a... |
| Jan 24, 2013 | Facebook Tests Another (Flipped) Timeline Layout | Your Timeline is most likely getting a fairly significant redesign – but it’s still unclear exactly when it will launch globally and exactly what it will look like.
Facebook has been pretty busy testing new Timeline designs as of late. A ne... |
| Jan 22, 2013 | Optimal gets $7M Series B for social media advertising | Social media advertising and analytics platform also announces new Chief Financial Officer
(Updated to reflect comment from Optimal)
Social media advertising and analytics platform Optimal has raised $7 million in Series B funding, it was a... |
| Jan 19, 2013 | Facebook no longer allowing Voxer to access its data | Facebook cites messaging app Voxer as a "competing social network"
In a move that could portend some serious consequences for other apps that use Facebook data in the future, Facebook has decided to cut off mobile communications s... |
| Jan 18, 2013 | Line, a mobile messaging platform, hits 100M users | Line has been the top free app in 41 countries in Europe and Asia
Mobile messaging platform Line celebrated a major milestone Friday, when it passed 100 million global users, it was announced Friday.
Line is a smartphone app that allows use... |
| Jan 14, 2013 | Facebook Preps Radically Visual Redesign Of The Mobile News Feed | Today, Facebook’s mobile apps look like its website shrunk down. Soon, that could change. I’ve seen first-hand the employee-only iOS app build of an evolved form of Facebook’s mobile news feed, which ditches the empty blue and white chrome ... |
| Jan 13, 2013 | What Facebook Should Be Building | Facebook has a big launch event on Tuesday. Here are nine things I think it may be working on, or at least should be. We’ve heard tips that some of these are already in development and may be released soon, while the rest could fill big hol... |
| Jan 10, 2013 | Facebook Wants to Interview Poke Users, Places Ads | Facebook wants to know if you’re poking, and if so, exactly how you feel about poking. Poking, of course, is my childish way of talking about Facebook’s new standalone Poke app, which launched a few weeks ago.
The social network is currentl... |
| Jan 6, 2013 | Reddit Rumored To Be Raising Money, At A $400 Million Valuation | Welcome to yet another Rumor Sunday™. In 2011, Reddit was spun out of Conde Nast as a standalone company, but the publishing giant kept full ownership. At the time, Peter Kafka of AllthingsD reported that Conde Nast had considered the optio... |
| Jan 4, 2013 | Facebook Pages Manager for Android Begins Soft Launch | Good news today for Android users who operate Facebook Pages. Facebook has begun to roll out a version of its Pages Manager app for Android devices (it was previously only available for iOS).
Like the iOS version, the Android app gives page... |
| Jan 3, 2013 | Facebook Adds Voice Messaging To Messenger For iOS and Android, Tests Open Source VoIP In Canada | Facebook’s next messaging move is all about voice. Today it released an update for its standalone Messenger for iOS and Android apps that lets users send up to one-minute voice messages. It’s also testing open source VoIP calling between Ca... |
| Dec 28, 2012 | Why Instagram Didn’t Really Lose 25% Of Its Users | New analytics from AppData suggest that Instagram is hemorrhaging members after last week’s backlash against its changing terms of use. Some sites are reporting that Instagram has actually lost 25% of its daily active users as a result of t... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Facebook Could Now Advertise To Children, Thanks To Updated Federal Privacy Rules | New advertising rules may have lifted a major barrier to Facebook’s long-held desire of signing up children under 13 years of age. The Federal Trade Communication revised the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to exclude paren... |
| Dec 18, 2012 | Tech Companies, You’re Killing Yourself With Scary Legalese. Put Policy Changes In Layman’s Terms | You always fear what you don’t understand. – Gotham City mob boss Carmine Falconi.
Tech companies need to wise up and end the cycle of pushing policy updates in confusing legal terms, watching press and users alike panic and threaten to jum... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | Hands On With Facebook Nearby, A New Local Biz Discovery Feature That Challenges Yelp And Foursquare | Each month 250 million Facebook users tag posts with location. Today that data goes to work for you in a major revamp of Facebook’s Nearby feature for its iOS and Android apps. Built by Josh Williams and the Gowalla team that Facebook acqui... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | More Than Privacy Controls, Facebook Needs Our Trust To Keep Growing | If you don’t trust Facebook, you might keep an account, but you won’t share as much. So Facebook is aiming to educate users about privacy in the hopes that they’ll keep doubling the amount they share each year and uphold Zuckerberg’s Law. F... |
| Dec 5, 2012 | Facebook Changes Name Of Subscribe Feature To “Follow” So People Understand It’s Just Like Twitter | Facebook Subscribe lets you get feed updates from people who don’t have to Subscribe back. It’s essentially Twitter within Facebook . So to reduce confusion and hopefully boost traction, it’s adopting Twitter’s terminology and renaming Subs... |
| Dec 5, 2012 | Facebook Lets Small Businesses Quickly Contact Its Customer Support Via Chat To Cut Call Center Costs | Understanding Facebook marketing and ads can be tough for small businesses. To address the issue, Facebook’s customer-service department has been quietly testing a Salesforce-powered system that lets businesses contact it over Facebook Chat... |