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GQ - The requests are rolling in from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter--even Snapchat. Siobhan Rosen has tips for when your parents are all up in your news feed
View ArticleNow Your Snapchats Can Last For 24 Hours
Business Insider - You may think of Snapchat â the quick, easy way to temporarily send your friends a funny picture, scandalous selfie, or that ironically captioned text book pic â as a...
View ArticleFacebook Home gathers up Instagram, Pinterest, and more
CNET - A Flickr photo in Facebook Home. (Credit: Facebook) Facebook is acknowledging that most smartphone owners want a broader view of the social-networking universe, not just a window to planet...
View ArticleReport: Shots Fired Outside U.S. Capitol; One Officer May Be Injured
Blaze - ⢠Unconfirmed reports of injuries⢠ABC News: Female suspect dead on scene⢠Result of a car chase?⢠Watch live local news feed
View ArticleU.S. Capitol under security lockdown: Follow our live news feed
Toronto Star - Police say the U.S. Capitol has been put on a security lockdown amid reports of possible shots fired outside the building.
View ArticleInstagram About To Be Ruined, With Ads
Huffington Post - It had to happen eventually. Instagram, the free social photography app, announced in a blog post on Thursday that it is introducing ads. These will not look like traditional ads,...
View ArticleToronto mayor Rob Ford addresses Austin city council
Toronto Star - Follow our news feed as Toronto mayor Rob Ford addresses the city council of Austin, Tex.
View ArticleHow Themer can refresh your Android home screen (pictures)
CNET - The Themer app for Android can give Android phones' home screens anything from an uncluttered austerity to over-the-top techno detail. Here's a sampling of the app's themes.This Android theme,...
View ArticleFacebook Wants To Know: Do You Like Me? Do You Really Like Me?
Huffington Post - Matthew Gomez used to check Facebook at least once an hour. Now, a year later, heâs down to once a day. He's been turned off by a News Feed jammed with more ads and fewer stories...
View ArticleEven Twitter Has Tough Time Describing Itself
Investor's Business Daily - Even heavy users of Twitter have a tough time describing to the uninitiated what the service is all about. That's because Twitter is a Rorschach print of a business with...
View ArticleMOBILE INSIGHTS: Facebook Just Made Ad Buying Very Simple For All Marketers
Business Insider - Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence that collects and delivers the top mobile industry news. It is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI...
View ArticleThe Rise Of Native: Why All Social Media Advertising Is Going In-Stream
Business Insider - Â There's a huge shift underway, with social media ad budgets being reallocated to native ads. BIA/Kelsey projected that social media advertising would balloon into an $11 billion...
View ArticleFacebook Just Made Ad Buying Very Simple For All Marketers
Business Insider - Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI...
View ArticleGays, Put Your Gay Money Where Your Gay Mouths Are
Huffington Post - While trolling my Facebook news feed for announcements of exes' engagements and friends' first dates gone awry, my eyes skimmed over the words "gay celebrity" and "Salvation Army."...
View ArticleLooking Beyond Video, Jun Group Announces Its Overdrive Format For âOwned...
TechCrunch - Until recently advertising company Jun Group focused on video. In recent months, however, it's been exploring a format that it calls "owned advertising" with a new product called...
View ArticleOfficial Facebook app (finally!) available for Windows 8.1 users
PC World - For all the improvements Microsoft has made in bolstering the Windows Store's app selection, one insistent question has held back the company's dreams of grandeur: "Yeah, but where's...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 app updates: Facebook, Netflix, and more
CNET - The new and improved Facebook app for Windows 8.1. (Credit: Facebook) The launch of Windows 8.1 has ushered in several updated applications, led by Facebook. The social network on Thursday...
View ArticleSay what? Google will now sell Facebook ads
CNET - (Credit: Facebook) Despite the longtime, full-blown rivalry between Google and Facebook, it looks like the two Internet behemoths may finally be coming to terms with each other -- at least when...
View ArticleFacebook Adds Video And New Pricing To Its Mobile App Ads
TechCrunch - Facebook just announced two changes to its mobile app install ads that should make them more appealing to advertisers. First, the company says it will now support video in these ad units....
View ArticleFacebook inserts video into mobile ads
CNET - (Credit: Facebook) Facebook hopes to make its mobile ads more enticing to viewing audiences and advertisers alike with an upgrade that lets developers run video ads in the News Feed on iOS and...
View ArticleApp developers get first crack at Facebook video ads
Macworld - Your News Feed will soon see mobile video ads prompting you to watch a demo, then download new apps.
View ArticleDeadspin Man Buys Ticket To Game 1 Of World Series For $6 On StubHub |...
Gawker - Deadspin Man Buys Ticket To Game 1 Of World Series For $6 On StubHub | Gizmodo Why We Need to Sleep So Much | Kotaku Korea's Cop Cats Will Arrest You with Cuteness | Lifehacker How to...
View ArticleHiyalife Release An iPhone App For Its Privacy-Aware Memories Platform
TechCrunch - Back in the day a few startups came along to bring the interface of a time-line to our memories. We're all familiar with the Facebook news-feed approach, though in fairness, timelines are...
View ArticleWhy Every Social Network Should Be Betting On In-Stream, Native Advertising
Business Insider - The native-social rush is on. BIA/Kelsey estimates that social ad spend will reach over $10 billion by 2017 and that up to 40% or more of those outlays will go to native ads. In the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Webscape: Tailoring your news feed
BBC News - Kate Russell reviews a site which selects news based on your social media accounts plus other sites and apps.
View ArticleHere's Why Native Advertising Will Rescue The Mobile Advertising Industry
Business Insider - A native ad is conceived for specific sites or apps and are a natural part of the experience. One example is the Facebook ads that show up in your news feed, another is the...
View ArticleTwitter's New Look: Pictures And Video Now Appear Automatically On Newsfeed
Huffington Post - Twitter has a new look - and it's probably really going to annoy a lot of people. The change means that pictures and image previews appear automatically on your news feed, in the same...
View ArticleFacebook contemplates tracking your every move
CNET - (Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove/CNET) Facebook is testing new Web and mobile tracking methods to better understand member behavior and determine things such as how long people hover over...
View ArticleFacebook earnings top expectations
San Francisco Chronicle - Facebook posted stronger-than-expected earnings Wednesday as advertising revenue grew 66 percent and the company continued to tap into the growing market of mobile users....
View ArticleAdvertising: It Slices, It Dices, It Looks Great in Your News Feed
New York Times - An online campaign for the kitchen appliance maker Bella encourages young people to use smartphones to post about it to social networks.   Â
View ArticleFacebook fizzle?
CNBC - Channing Smith, Capital Advisors Growth Fund, and Jordan Rohan, Stifel, discuss how fickle teenagers are impacting Facebook's shares. Ad inventory in news feed is a worry for investors, says Smith.
View ArticleAnalysts Are Pounding The Table Telling Investors To Buy Facebook Amid...
Business Insider - Facebook posted extremely healthy financial results yesterday. It's recently non-existent mobile ad business is huge, and accelerating. Then, during a conference call to discuss the...
View ArticleTwitter silent on when it'll turn a profit
San Francisco Chronicle - Investors are looking for sustainable business models after Internet companies such as Groupon saw their shares crater when they went public without profits. Groupon started...
View ArticleFacebook shares close at $50.21 after sales report
San Francisco Chronicle - The social networking service reported sales of $2.02 billion in the third quarter, beating analysts' estimates as marketers spent more on advertisements targeting smartphone...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Is Finally Updating Yahoo Finance, Though Today's Launch Has...
Business Insider - Yahoo planned to roll-out a redesigned version of Yahoo Finance this morning, but the launch has been delayed. The Wall Street Journal's Douglas MacMillan broke the news. MacMillan...
View ArticleYahoo updates iOS Finance app to make it more personal
CNET - The Yahoo Finance app now lets you track your favorite stocks. (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Yahoo has revamped its iOS Finance app to help you keep better track of your portfolio....
View ArticleNikki Finke out at Deadline Hollywood
Politico - Nikki Finke, the blogger whose name is synonymous with Hollywood scoops and gossip, has finally parted ways with Deadline.com after a year of feuding with the site's owner, Jay Penske. "Jay...
View ArticleTrending Now: Facebook plugs buzzy posts in News Feed
CNET - @jbruin - Facebook has moved "trending topics" from the sidebar to the news feed: pic.twitter.com/wde5HHFbbuâ Nicholas Zahn (@nzahn1) November 6, 2013 Facebook is showing some members stories...
View ArticleOpen pages in Chrome as panels with PIP Viewer extension
CNET - You can juggle multiple tabs in Chrome, and you can juggle multiple windows. With Chrome extension Picture in Picture Viewer, you gain a third option: the ability to open a Web page as a Chrome...
View ArticleThe 10 funniest Twitter parody videos online
Investor's Business Daily - Newly public Twitter (TWTR) proved popular with investors this week, but it has long been a favorite target of comedians. The San Francisco-based microblogging service and...
View ArticleFacebook's redesigned Messenger takes aim at WhatsApp, Snapchat
PC World - Facebook is hoping to gain a stronger foothold in the competitive mobile messaging space with an updated version of its Messenger app, which now lets people message each other even if they...
View ArticleWeâd Double Tap That: The 25 Hottest Instagram Accounts
New York Observer - Instagram is notoriously puritanical when it comes to steamy content. Searching for hashtags like #hot and #sexy will yield zero results because the photo sharing app blocks them....
View ArticleTwitter, Internet company valuations spur bubble talk
Investor's Business Daily - With money-losing Internet companies getting sky-high valuations, some investors are feeling deja vu from the dot-com bubble. Talk of a new tech stock bubble is increasing....
View ArticleDoes Facebook need a cemetery?
CNET - Your own Facebook memorial. Does death disrupt your day? By "your day," I of course mean your Facebook news feed, the place where all news happens and all feelings are expressed. Some people...
View ArticleHeroes of the Storm Dev Apologizes for Sexualized Character Designs Comments
Electronic Gaming Monthly - Posting on the Heroes of the Storm news feed yesterday, game director Dustin Browder apologized for comments made during a recent Rock, Paper, Shotgun interview concerning...
View ArticleLike our Cleveland Browns news page on Facebook
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Get the latest Browns news right in your Facebook news feed.
View ArticleFacebook Is Replacing Its âHide Allâ Button With âUnfollowâ
TechCrunch - Here's a new tweak to how Facebook users can filter their News Feeds: The company says it's rolling out a button that allows you "unfollow" other users. To be clear, it sounds like the...
View ArticleFacebook to deliver more news, fewer memes in News Feed
CNET - Facebook said Monday that it will start showing members more links to news articles when they visit the social-networking site, especially when they do so from their smartphones. The...
View ArticleFacebook's Feed Adds More Links And âRelated Articlesâ To Battle News...
TechCrunch - Facebook is determined to be your top content discovery destination, so it's making several tweaks to its News Feed, including showing more links to articles, displaying a "related...
View ArticleFacebook pushes news to the top -- literally
Macworld - So long, Lil Bub: A Monday News Feed update will feature news articles more prominently than memes.
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