People will never stop talking about what’s for dinner on the internet. The massive reach and engagement of new media properties like Tastemade, which offers short video cooking lessons, or
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Snapchat’s Spectacles vending machine lands in Santa Monica
Another day, another seemingly random location drop for Snapbot, your friendly neighborhood Snapchat Spectacles vending machine. Today’s lucky destination is Santa Monica, bucking the recent trend of out-of-the-way spots for
Sprinklr acquires LittleBird, a tool for finding experts on anything via Twitter
New York marketing tech firm Sprinklr has acquired Portland-based LittleBird, according to Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas. LittleBird was founded in 2011 to help researchers quickly find the top
LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
After a tense stand-off and attempt at negotiations, Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has started to enforce a proposed block of LinkedIn in the country, after the social network failed to transfer
Microsoft offers concessions to EU regulators eyeing its $26.2B LinkedIn bid
Microsoft has offered concessions to EC competition regulators in the hopes of smoothing the way for its planned acquisition of LinkedIn. It announced the $26.2 billion deal this June. Reuters reports the development
Like by smiling? Facebook acquires emotion detection startup FacioMetrics
Facebook could one day build facial gesture controls for its app thanks to the acquisition of a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company called FacioMetrics. The startup made an app called
Facebook overhauls ad metrics, admits 4 bugs and errors led to misreported numbers
Facebook has been posting big gains on the back of advertising this year, but it looks like not all is well in the world of ad metrics on the social network. Today
Kaspersky eyes launching a real-time back-up service for social media leavers
Veteran security firm Kaspersky Lab is looking at launching a real-time encrypted back-up service for social media users to store their data outside the walled garden of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and
Microsoft offers concessions to EU regulators eyeing its $26.2BN LinkedIn bid
Microsoft has offered concessions to EC competition regulators in the hopes of smoothing the way for its planned acquisition of LinkedIn. It announced the $26.2 billion deal this June. Reuters reports the development
Pinterest launches an ‘Explore’ section for trending topics and ideas
Pinterest today is launching a new section of the app that is geared around surfacing trending and top ideas that’ll get additional new content in front of users. Called “Explore,”
Happy 20th birthday, ICQ!
Uh-oh! It’s 20 years to the day since the introduction of one of the internet’s most well-remembered chat apps: ICQ. It was pretty barebones in its first form, released by
This is why Snapchat didn’t give Spectacles to techies
If you want to make something cool, don’t give it to geeks first. Google Glass learned that the hard way. Despite Snapchat’s best efforts, Robert Scoble still got a hold
Hustle is the grassroots personalized mass-texting tool we need
People hate phone calls and ignore emails, so how do you get them to protest, organize, fundraise and fight for the causes they believe in? By talking to them like
Hustle is the grassroots personalized mass-texting tool we need
People hate phone calls and ignore emails, so how do you get them to protest, organize, fundraise and fight for the causes they believe in? By talking to them like
FBI will receive ‘limited’ Twitter firehose access through Dataminr, but has to watch its step
The FBI has publicly disclosed its intent to get at the “mission critical” Twitter firehose through third party monitoring service Dataminr. But Twitter, which has a 5 percent stake in
