Pinterest releases awesome clean-out-your-fridge tool for its food category
Pinterest just keeps getting more useful.
Pinterest just keeps getting more useful.
Through testing, Facebook learned that its audience is prone to mimicry: If people see more text status updates, they’ll write more status updates themselves.
Having kids is a crazy thing to do. Sure they can be cute and carry on your family’s legacy, but along with all that comes a whole lot of questions, challenges, and work.
Sponsored Post Whether going to the movies, heading off to school, or enjoying dinner out, 87 percent of teens and 73 percent of adults say they feel better knowing a family member is aware of their location through an app.
Unlike Twitter’s feature, Facebook Trending will show different topics for every person on the network. So no more Bieber topics unless that’s what you reeeeally want to see.
Editor’s Pick Facebook is getting better and better at NLP, predictive computing, machine learning, and all the tricky parts of computer science that bring us closer to a true artificial intelligence.
Kabam is building its executive team so it can run a much larger worldwide business.
Twitter gave its web presence an upgrade today, which it says will mimic its iOS and Android applications.
Branch is taking its online forum-esque smarts to Facebook.
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Fans of YoVille aren’t going quietly, and they’re lobbying for Zynga to save the game.
The deal shows there’s still a lot of interest in the private social network.
You may not be the cool kid who knows about all the latest music and live shows, but LuckyPennie can help you feel like you are.
Since Facebook’s blockbuster $16 billion IPO, the social network has seen its share of highs and lows.
While the sponsored stories ad unit will disappear, the idea remains very much intact.
Doximity’s physician network doubled in size last year to 250,000 members. It now reaches 35 percent of all doctors in the U.S.
Ion Interactive CTO and marketing technologist Scott Brinker has released version 3.0 of his “marketing technology landscape supergraphic.”
Twitter is putting its own little twist on its first earnings call as a public company.
Jelly is an app for asking and answering questions to people in your social network and beyond.
“Although social communication is now easier than ever, it seems that our capacity for maintaining emotionally close relationships is finite. While this number varies from person to person, what holds true in all cases is that at any point individuals are able to keep up close relationships with only a small number of people.”
CO Everywhere is a mobile app that lets you follow locations around the world and see all the social activity that is happening there. The company has raised a total of $6 million in funding, with $3.4 million closing today.
Editor's Pick After an action-packed year full of Vines, hacks, and acquisitions, Twitter is now a publicly traded company. That comes with some new responsibilities, like narrowing the massive gap between its revenues and its sky-high valuation.
While Walmart and Target still held their own and experienced huge surges around Black Friday and Christmas Eve, the leader of the pack turned out to be — drum roll! – Amazon.com.
Like its parent Twitter, Vine makes an art form from the shortest possible expressive burst. Vine’s 6-second looping videos are tailored to take advantage of the short attention span and limited bandwidth of mobile sector, but now the company is going beyond its original mobile platform to beefing up its Web presence with full profiles.
For big brands, social media management can be a messy affair. Spredfast promises to help tidy things up.
2013 was a big year for Foursquare, and arguably its most important. The company completed its transition to a location discovery service, finally started building its small business ad platform, and raised $76 million ($41 million of which was debt).
We’ll just have to take our schemes elsewhere.
The Pew Research Center Internet Project released the results of its 2013 social media report today which found that 73% of online adults use a social networking site of some kind, and 42% of adults use multiple sites.
These stories show us the path behind, but they also help us to project the trajectory of the near future. And 2014 is all about mobile, money, and conquering the rest of the world.
Ducks say quack, and fish go blub, and the seal goes “OW, OW, OW.” And the Miley goes twerk.
Guest Post Business Insider — as well as Buzzfeed, Upworthy, and a growing number of others — definitely show impressive traffic numbers, but are they a good indicator of a successful business?
You can’t escape Facebook these days — even if you don’t have a data plan.
Surely there are more pressing, or at least untapped, problems out there to solve for an entrepreneur with an M.S. from Stanford.
The meltdown happened in a very short time as a woman flew to South Africa, unaware of the outrage she had caused.
Consumers and businesses alike have something to learn from just about all of your social media interactions. Here’s our initial list of the top tools for measuring your social impact online.
From Michelle Obama to Beyoncé, it’s all retro goodness as the photo-sharing service collects the last glimpses of 2013.
Facebook brand pages are out of control. At least, that’s what Manalto founder and CEO Anthony Owen told VentureBeat yesterday, discussing the $1 million seed round his company just raised to expand its social media management platform and bring it to the U.S.
Moovit’s app combines public transport data with input from the community to give you a real-time look at what your trip will be like and suggest the best routes.
Guest Post Everyone knows they need to get on the Google+ train or they will be left behind, but what tools are needed to do this? Here are three we want to see.
Facebook wants to be Twitter just as much as Twitter wants to be Facebook.