Social TV’s Big Week: Flingo’s $7M Funding Follows Super Bowl
Two days after social TV made a splash at the Super Bowl, yet another new entry in that field, Flingo, announced that it has secured $7 mill… Read more »
Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more »
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
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Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing mass… Read more »
Mashable CEO Beats Oprah In Influence — At Least On Reuters’ New Site
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In a new business-oriented social media site, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) aims to index “the most talked-about news, companies and influencers acros… Read more »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
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Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more »
Now Facebook Must Prove To Wall Street Its Ads Really Work
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Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must… Read more »
The Facebook IPO Lowdown 2-1-12
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» Facebook’s biggest risks explained (ReadWriteWeb)
» Is Facebook’s IPO the start of something, or the end? (GigaOm)… Read more »
2.7 Billion Daily Likes And Other Key Numbers From Facebook’s S-1
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Facebook’s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of peopl… Read more »
Facebook’s Status Update: $5 Billion IPO Filed
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It took the whole day, but Facebook finally — as many expected — filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaite… Read more »
Report: Facebook’s IPO To Start At $5 Billion, And It’s Coming Wednesday AM
Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO looks to be coming ever-closer, with a new report out with further details of what we will see come Wednesda… Read more »
Facebook’s Birth Certificate
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Facebook is widely expected to go public in the very near future with a valuation north of $75 billion. It’s a moment that tech watchers hav… Read more »
Social Network Ads: LinkedIn Falls Behind Twitter; Facebook Biggest Of All
It remains to be seen whether all social networks can be profitable on advertising alone — and crucially what formats will work best alongs… Read more »
Google, Facebook, Twitter Execs Grilled By UK MPs On Privacy
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives got a rough ride from a House Of Commons committee on Monday, when they declined to systemically filter law-b… Read more »
Report: Facebook IPO Could Arrive Next Week With Hopes Of $10 Billion
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The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the p… Read more »
Virtual Pet Owners Sue Google Over Lost ‘Gold’
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Angry game owners are demanding Google (NSDQ: GOOG) compensate them for wiping out their investments in online pets. The loss of a virtual k… Read more »
Facebook’s Latest Scoop: Thousands Of Journalists Use Subscribe Feature
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network reveale… Read more »
Update 2: Privacy Alert: O2 Fixes Hole That Shared Users’ Phone Numbers
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Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile… Read more »
Yahoo In Context: It’s Declining While The Online Ad Market Keeps Growing
Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson earlier today gave frank — and, the hopeful might say, encouraging — run down of the task ahead to turn around… Read more »
Google’s New Privacy Policy Aims At Integrating YouTube
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will use email and a message on its home page to notify users about a new privacy policy that will go into effect this M… Read more »
Facebook And Timelines.com Propose 2013 Trial, Hint At Settlement
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Facebook remains locked in a legal dispute with a Chicago website over who owns the word “timeline,” the name used by the social network to… Read more »
What A Facebook Deal With Vevo Could Unleash
Facebook is lagging in the video-streaming race, with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) an… Read more »
Social Media Gets Stickier: Twitter/Summify; Facebook/Apps, Video Too?
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This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them l… Read more »
ITN Unifying Ad Sales For Multi-Platform Video Syndication
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations. Read more »
Tech Industry Breaks Back Of SOPA As Republicans Jump Ship On Black-out Day
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The furor over controversial anti-piracy legislation reached a climax on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers began disavowing the Stop Online… Read more »
Can Facebook Revive Taylor Lautner Dud 'Abduction'?
The Taylor Lautner action thriller Abduction was something of a bust at the box office in September, grossing just $28.1 million at the U.S.… Read more »
Can Facebook Control 5 Percent Of Online Advertising By End Of 2012?
While many of the top Internet companies faced a volatile ad market in the fourth quarter of last year, Facebook saw its share of the overal… Read more »
New Law Lets Canadians Blog And Tweet Election Results
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Bowing to the reality of modern technology, Canada today said it is changing a 1938 law that forbids broadcasting election results before po… Read more »
@ CES: Available Now – Android OEM. WLTM Caring, Ambitious, Strong Partner
Unlike its local rival Samsung, the Korean handset maker LG (SEO: 066570) has lately had more of a mixed bag when it’s come to Android devic… Read more »
Is It Legal For Google To Shut Competitors Out Of Social Search?
Twitter and some pundits are crying foul over Google’s decision to exclude certain competitors from its new search and social networking hyb… Read more »
Study: Search-Ad Clicks On Mobile Devices Are Growing Faster Than On PCs
In the world of search advertising, mobile phones and tablets continue to outpace performance of search ads on PCs, although they still repr… Read more »
Did Google Go Too Far Mixing Social And Search?
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This morning Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unfurled a pretty new search feature that lets users receive personalized results based on their own friend… Read more »
Paul Berry, CTO: I Left HuffPost For The Startup Bug-Or In This Case, Mouse
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the… Read more »
Google Shakes Up Search Results With New 'Your World' Feature
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is taking the bold step of changing the way it displays search results as part of an ongoing effort to become more socia… Read more »
Samsung/HTC: Two Sides Of An Android Coin. Why's Samsung Winning The Toss?
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Android is trouncing the competition when it comes to platform domination in the smartphone market — over half of all smartphones being use… Read more »
Can Investors Still Win Big On China's Google Or Facebook? Probably Not
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Investors who missed out on the biggest gains from U.S. innovations – internet search engines, online job listings and cell phone populari… Read more »
What The Analysts Asked Yahoo Today, And How The New CEO Responded
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as i… Read more »
The Latest Complaint About Google Plus: It's 'Breaking Search'
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is a great search company. They defined how we enter the great brickyard of knowledge for most of this decade because th… Read more »
Report: Yahoo To Name PayPal Head As CEO. Sign Of A More Commercial Push?
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011 — not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken f… Read more »
Report: Apple To Hold Event In NYC. Publishing, Advertising In The Mix?
A new year, and a crisp, new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) rumor to kick things off: the company is reportedly planning an event for the end of the mon… Read more »
Hulu Missing Out On The Facebook Sharing Gold Rush
Facebook has super-charged a handful of lucky media companies selected to test-drive the social network’s frictionless sharing platform. But… Read more »
