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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom responds to backlash
Instagram wants you to know that it hears your concerns and its doing its best to alleviate the symptoms of change. Accordingly, the photo-sharing service has altered the parts of its new Terms of...
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Twitter acquires Bluefin Labs to create innovative ad products
Twitter is expanding on its Nielsen deal to develop social TV ratings through an acquisition of Bluefin Labs, a firm specializing in statistics for television networks. The acquisition, says Twitter,...
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Facebook to reveal ads targeted to user behavior patterns
Facebook is now compliant with the Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program, and has to show the AdChoice icon in behaviorally targeted Facebook Exchange (FBX) ads. This allows users...
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Twitter t.co shortener adds two more characters, shortens tweets
If you thought that 140 characters was just not enough to thoroughly get your point across on Twitter, get ready, because any URLs you add to your tweet out are going to make them even shorter....
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App.net introduces free accounts with an invitation system
App.net has decided to remove the cost of entry for some users, as it now allows those with paid accounts to invite up to three people to the service for free. If you're unfamiliar with App.net, it's...
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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason fired due to poor quarterly results
Yesterday, Groupon hit us with a massively disappointing first-quarter earnings report, which saw its stock tumble by over 25% after hours, and now CEO Andrew Mason is out. Someone had to take the...
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Facebook’s new News Feed focuses on multimedia [Video]
Facebook has announced a greatly revamped News Feed that hopes to beautify all the content that you consume on the social network. The new News Feed separates the different categories of content,...
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The problem is the only way Facebook has found to make money is by treating all entities on the site as advertisers and charging them to share their content. This business plan backfires because 1)...
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Twitter finally allows you to mute your friends
It's pretty hard to get a message across in 140 characters or less. I know, I'm a journalist and I've had to do it professionally. But maybe you feel you are still getting too much information that...
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Tumblr user numbers in massive freefall
Over a year ago, Yahoo purchased the blog host Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Today their investment is not looking so good. Rather than seeing growth, in the past six months Tumblr had lost over 7 million...
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