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Jan 25, 2012 6:30 PM
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, TV, Broadcast, Search, Social Media, News Sharing, Photo Sharing, Companies, Facebook, New York Times, Twitter, Washington Post, facebook subscribe
Jan 23, 2012 10:44 AM
Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how consumer applications are the source of the most action at the moment.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Google
Jan 17, 2012 5:27 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police - but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage service says it froze his account when it confused a famous work of art with pornography.
Posted In: Entertainment, Adult, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Social Media, Avatars, Photo Sharing, Weblogs, Companies, Google, Microsoft, skydrive
Dec 22, 2011 12:30 PM
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: New statistics from Experian Hitwise suggest the average Pinterest user is more likely to live in the Southeast or Northwest than the average social network…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Women-Centric Content, Social Media, Photo Sharing, pinterest
Dec 19, 2011 9:39 AM
Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire.
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Social Media, News Sharing, Photo Sharing, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, buzzfeed, jonah peretti
Dec 7, 2011 9:10 AM
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 quick note-taking, both audio and textual, which is then stored in the cloud for access anywhere. Now Evernote appears to be getting a little more…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Wikis, Companies, Apple, iPhone, iTunes, Facebook, Twitter, evernote
Oct 18, 2011 8:30 AM
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:» Yahoo’s Levinsohn On Executive Chaos: ‘You Sort Of Get Used To It’ (paidContent) » So Much For ‘Working It Out’: Michael Wolff Is Out At Adweek (paidContent) » Charting WSJ Europe’s Circulation Over The Last Decade (paidContent) » How can…
Posted In: Advertising, Features, The Morning Lowdown, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, TV, Cable & Telecom, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Apple, Google, Viacom, Yahoo, Countries, Europe, UK
Sep 22, 2011 3:02 PM
Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers encourage Facebook users to share more details about their lives. The new Open Graph and several varieties of Facebook applications were joined by a redesigned version of the Facebook profile called the…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Movies, Music, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, News Sharing, Photo Sharing, Video, Companies, Facebook, f8
Sep 20, 2011 1:14 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided its Google+ social network was ready to take a big step on Tuesday: it’s now open to the public and no invitation is required. The company also released over a dozen new features designed to make it easier to use the software on mobile devices and…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Video, Companies, Facebook, Google, google plus
Aug 26, 2011 1:28 PM
Google’s social reinvention under CEO Larry Page has claimed another victim. Slide founder Max Levchin is leaving the company after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided to chop most of the products under his domain as it consolidates its social-media strategy around Google+.
Posted In: Apps, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Google, max levchin, slide
Aug 24, 2011 5:39 AM
Corbis and the user-contributed photojournalism site Demotix are expanding the syndication deal they struck in March in to an investment. The photo agency giant has made an investment of an undisclosed size in the London-based service.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing
Jul 27, 2011 6:00 AM
Pixazza is losing its unwieldy name as the company looks to evolve from being a photo ad network that specialized in tagging jpegs and gifs for direct response in-image purchases, to a wider platform for sharing, indexing and creating apps for online pictures. The three-year-old Google-backed Mountain View company will…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, E-Commerce, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Facebook, Google
Jun 29, 2011 4:57 AM
News media this week reported next year’s London Olympics will allow athletes to tweet from the Summer Games. In fact, that consent was contained in general guidelines applying to all social media, which were issued to athletes back in May and which themselves are a variant of guidelines issued for…
Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Photo Sharing, Video
Jun 28, 2011 8:25 PM
Mika Salmi described the new backers of PressPlane, the parent company of new mobile app Zapd, as a “who’s who” of Seattle in a note to me and he wasn’t joking. Madrona Capital and Real Networks founder Rob Glaser led the Seattle-based startup’s $3.5 million second round for a total…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Community, Photo Sharing, madrona capital, mika salmi, pressplane, rob glaser, zapd
Jun 28, 2011 1:34 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched yet another project geared at making its search engine a more social beast. The awkwardly titled Google+ went live as an invitation-only “field test” Tuesday with the goal of allowing users to share information within self-determined groups of connections called “circles,” and is aimed squarely…
Posted In: Social Media, Community, News Sharing, Photo Sharing, Companies, Facebook, Google, google plus
Jun 2, 2011 10:19 AM
Photo distribution company Getty Images has finalized its acquisition of stock images service Photolibrary as it seeks to expand its international reach, particularly in Asia. This is the second acquisition Getty has done this year, the first being April’s purchase of digital rights management company PicScout.
Posted In: Legal, Digital Rights Management, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Photo Sharing
Jun 1, 2011 5:52 PM
Fail whale no more. Some big inroads for Twitter today in its bid to make its own basic services more appealing to users than using third-party clients, and a breath of life for two other companies in the process: the microblogging site today finally unveiled its new, native image app…
Posted In: Apps, Features, Tweets, Mobile, Search, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Twitter, firefox, instagram, mozilla, photobucket, twitpic, yfrog
Mar 25, 2011 7:09 AM
“18hrs in. 1st exp needs tutorial. finding people must get easier. UI too minimal. long road. grt people. lots of capital. #wecandobetter” That was the tweet made by Bill Nguyen, one of the founders of the app Color on its first day on the Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) app…
Posted In: Mobile, Social Media, News Sharing, Photo Sharing, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Countries, Europe, UK, bill nguyen, color
Mar 9, 2011 1:16 AM
DailyBooth, a social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding. DailyBooth users snap photos of themselves with their computers’ cameras and then share them, along with a caption. Users seem to be predominantly teenagers—many of whom seem very bored—judging…
Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Community, Nanopublishing, Photo Sharing
Dec 17, 2010 2:45 PM
Eastman Kodak hasn’t been shy about using its patents to wring some licensing money out of the smartphone industry, but the company recently crossed a new frontier. Kodak, which has gone after several mobile-phone companies over the past year, is now targeting an internet company, with its recent lawsuit against…
Posted In: Legal, Patents, Social Media, Photo Sharing, kodak, shutterfly
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