What's Coming In 2012: Internet TVs Out-Box The Boxes
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This is the third in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more »
FTC Calls For Comments On Facial Recognition Technology
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Devices that treat our face as a fingerprint are one of the more unnerving technologies of the information age. Privacy regulators are start… Read more »
Crafty Southern Ladies Make Pinterest A Unique Social Networking Site
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I’ve been sucked into image collecting and sharing site Pinterest for hours on end, but my NYC location makes me a less than typical user: N… Read more »
News Corp.'s Sun Wins Appeal: Video On News Sites Won't Be Regulated As VOD
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications re… Read more »
'Time Shifting' Is Replacing 'Real Time'
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Nearly three short years ago, the buzz word du jour in tech was “realtime”. Real time discovery. Real time search. Real time serendipity. Th… Read more »
AOL Ponies Up For Appssavvy's $7.1 Million Round As Social Ads Make Friends
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One of the consequences of the growth of social media has been the rise of that category of digital, interactive advertising referred to as… Read more »
How A New Court Ruling Upends Facebook's Sponsored Story Strategy
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A court decision in October said Facebook users couldn’t sue over being placed in ads because their endorsements had no economic value. Now… Read more »
BuzzFeed Releases Kindle Fire-Optimized App
Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire. Read more »
News Corp./Time Warner's Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW… Read more »
Facebook's Sock On The Door
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Facebook’s new Timeline has been hailed as a digital mirror of our lives but it also provides a new window into the company itself. The view… Read more »
Zynga IPO Could Challenge Google's High Score
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Zynga, the social gaming company behind Farmville, Words With Friends and other online games, is preparing to go public on Friday in what co… Read more »
Facebook Timeline Is Here For All: Creepy But Beautiful
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Facebook created a stir earlier this year by saying it would replace its profile page with a chronology called Timeline that is created from… Read more »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
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Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Megaupload Sues Universal For Pulling Down Celebrity Endorsement Video
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The entertainment world is buzzing about a viral video that shows A-list artists like Kanye West and Alicia Keyes singing the praises of fil… Read more »
Publishers' Social Site aNobii Relaunches To Put The 'Book' In 'Facebook'
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Book-readers’ social commerce site aNobii has got the relaunch for which three book publishers invested in it back in March. Read more »
Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more »
Five Ways Twitter's New Redesign Makes It More Like Sina Weibo
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Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to China’s most dynamic microblogging platform, Sina’s (… Read more »
Twitter's Promoted Tweets Advertisers Can Squat Rivals' Brands
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Twitter apparently allows its clients to buy adverts using rivals’ brand names.
I noticed UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s had bought ads o… Read more »
Twitter's New Look Means More Relevance For Users and Advertisers
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Twitter right now can feel like a playground for a high priesthood of celebrities, marketers and journalists. Today, as part of an effort to… Read more »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
Netshelter Launches New RSS-Style Ad Format For Blogs
The blog ad network NetShelter, which counts with hundreds of technology blogs and some 4,800 bloggers among the sites for which it sells ad… Read more »
As Facebook Rolls Out Timeline, Netflix Inches Closer To U.S. Sharing Deal
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Two more advances for Facebook in its ongoing quest to make its service ever more sticky and useful for its 800 million-plus base of subscri… Read more »
Evernote's New Hello And Food Apps Take Organizer To New Competitive Ground
Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of… Read more »
Updated: Report: Facebook Buys Location Sharing App Gowalla?
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More mobile movements from Facebook today: it has bought the check-in social media service Gowalla, according to a report in CNN. Read more »
Report: Apple To Give 4G A Shot In Arm With Next-Generation iPad, iPhone
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We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year — with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
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» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio… Read more »
About.com Rolls Out Lifestyle Content On Flipboard
As the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.-owned About Group continues its turnaround efforts in the face of weak display and cost-per-click ad s… Read more »
FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be 'Liked'
The Federal Trade Commission today released a much-anticipated settlement with Facebook over a series of privacy breaches. The deal has some… Read more »
Comparing The New Aggregators, Part 2
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As tablets become more of a increasingly popular household fixture, the companies that package content for the devices continue make their o… Read more »
Report: Facebook IPO Coming By Next June
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Facebook expects to become a public company over the next six to eight months, according to a report Monday. And the first step down that pa… Read more »
DailyCandy Looks To Closer Ties Between E-Commerce And Ad Sales
With last week’s hiring of Gilt City’s Fernando Romero, as VP of ad sales of women’s lifestyle guide DailyCandy, the company has decided tha… Read more »
Power To The People: ISPs, Media, Users Face Off In EU Legal Triple-Whammy
Consumers in Europe may be feeling the smarting bite of the economic winter settling in around us, but when it comes to internet and mobile… Read more »
With Android-based iQQ, Does Tencent Finally Have A Mobile Strategy?
Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s social media giant, has been really good at building Android apps of late, but it has always lacked a coherent m… Read more »
Colarusso Jumps From Bloomberg TV To Reuters
Dan Colarusso, who has held top editorial posts at the NY Post, Condé Nast’s Portfolio and briefly at Business Insider, is leaving his post… Read more »
The Mythical Facebook Phone Surfaces, Still A Long Way From Best Buy
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Facebook really is working on its own mobile phone, according to a report from AllThingsD, after years of speculation about such a project.… Read more »
Update: No Flash Yet On Android Ice Cream Sandwich, But Does It Matter?
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Today we either saw the first effects of Adobe’s decision to stop developing Flash for mobile, or another example of why it has not gotten v… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-18-11
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» Yelp Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO of Consumer-Review Internet Site (Bloomberg)
» Has The Kindle Fire Already… Read more »
Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal
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A group of eight newspaper publishers — Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Gr… Read more »
Digg's Problems Are Much Deeper Than Traffic Numbers
You know things aren’t going well for a website when it has to come out and deny rumors that it’s traffic has fallen 50 percent over the las… Read more »
Video Ad Networks BrightRoll, YuMe Raise New Millions
As online video’s growth shows no sign of slowing down, broadband video ad network BrightRoll has raised a $30 million third round to extend… Read more »
