When the deal closes, Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of virtual-reality firm Oculus VR could well go down as the most surprising –and perhaps the most significant — social media takeover […] Original post by FreeWebspace.net – webhosting forum latest threads
To mark its eighth birthday Friday, Twitter created a special website that allows everyone to look up anyone’s first tweets, the very first message sent by a Twitter user. All […] Original post by FreeWebspace.net – webhosting forum latest threads
Skype announced this week it is finally shuttering Qik, the popular mobile live-streaming video service it bought in 2011. Users received email notices that the service will cease to function […] Original post by FreeWebspace.net – webhosting forum latest threads
Among the top headlines in social media last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly posted that he had called President Obama to complain about allegations that the National Security […] Original post by FreeWebspace.net – webhosting forum latest threads
The so-called Twitter of China wants to sell stock in the United States in an IPO tentatively valued at $500 million. In its filing with the SEC, Weibo reported […] Original post by FreeWebspace.net – webhosting forum latest threads
Highlights of social media news during the past week: 1. Pin It: Publishers on four additional platforms can now offer Pinterest Pin-it buttons so their site visitors can more easily grab […] Original post by FreeWebspace.net – webhosting forum latest …
Twitter announced this week it has agreed to buy one of its data partners, a social media monitoring company called Gnip, which sells data about social media activity to businesses. […] Original post by gall1
Facebook may be known for promoting online friendships, but now it’s taking aim at offline connections through a new mobile feature called “Nearby Friends Friends Nearby Alert Announced today, Nearby […] Original post by gall1
LinkedIn is on the move, beefing up its links to mobile users. The company announced today it has crossed the 300-million-registered-users milestone, up from 277 million at the beginning […] Original post by gall1
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Facebook today took the wraps off FB Newswire, a new feature that’s part of its drive to make the network a more public place and an influential player in news. […] Original post by gall1
People who find Google’s image search service frustrating may welcome the latest news from Pinterest: a new visual discovery tool it calls “guided search.” Pinterest guided search The mega-image sharing site […] Original post by gall1
Move over, Klout. There’s a simpler and easier way to measure social influence. A new tool called SocialRank is gaining a lot of attention after introducing a free service two months […] Original post by gall1
Just what we all need — another social media channel to feed, right? As if Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google+ weren’t enough, LinkedIn wants to see everyone chatting away on […] Original post by gall1
Someone needs to create a memorial website for all the Facebook apps of days gone by. The latest items Facebook has consigned to the scrap heap of failed experiments? […] Original post by gall1