Week in Tech: Week in Tech: Apple TV grows, iPad slows, and Facebook explodes...
TechRadar - This week's been all about the numbers: Apple's sales figures, Facebook's user numbers and Lytro's new camera which delivers 1080 x 1080 pixels of light ray goodness. That's not all: Sony's...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Monitors What You Read In The News (FB)
Business Insider - Most people are dimly aware that Facebook has a way of tracking what you read in the news. If you "like" a story in The New York Times or on Fox News, then Facebook records that like...
View ArticleFacebookâs Mobile Ad Network Is Called âFacebook Audience Networkâ And...
TechCrunch - Â Next week at f8, Facebook will unveil Facebook Audience Network, its mobile ad network that will let developers target both standard banners and custom ad units with Facebook's vast...
View ArticleWatch Out Twitter And Google+, Facebook's News Feed Is Getting Smarter And...
Forbes - Facebook has a difficult problem but all of the financial and technological resources to solve it. The same cannot be said for its competitors Twitter and Google+.
View ArticleHere's The Magic Word That Can Boost Your Post In Facebook's News Feed (FB)
Business Insider - Facebook's News Feed has always been something of a mystery. Some posts show up in the feed, some don't. The feed has become over run with all sorts of content and Facebook uses an...
View ArticleHere's Everything Facebook Just Announced At Its Big Developer Conference (FB)
Business Insider - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just delivered what amounts to a massive cultural change for the social network. Soon, users will be able to utilize an anonymous login function. It will...
View ArticleSnapchat Updated with Text Messaging and Live Video Calls [iOS Blog]
Mac Rumors - Ephemeral photo sharing service Snapchat has released a significant update to its iOS app today, which brings integration of a new "Chat" text messaging feature and "Here" live video chat...
View ArticleA Simple, Nifty Trick For Cleaning Up Your Facebook News Feed
Fast Company - Is your Facebook friends list bloated to near unusable levels? Perhaps try this simple strategy.This week, in an enormous feat of determination, New York's Kevin Roose nuked his Facebook...
View ArticleFacebook Promotes VP Of Product Chris Cox To Chief Product Officer, But No...
TechCrunch - Â Chris Cox helped invent News Feed and devised Facebook's "Social By Design" strategy, so now the company is recognizing his critical contributions by promoting the VP Of Product to Chief...
View ArticleThis Week In BI Intelligence: eBay's Payment App Is Blowing Up On College...
Business Insider - This week's payments roundup comes from Payments Insider, the daily briefing delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence members. 'VOYEURISM' HELPS VENMO ADD...
View ArticleHow Much Money Top 50 Free Mobile Apps Actually Make
Huffington Post - Giving the answer "42" or "not a lot" and making this post very short is tempting, but I will steer away from the pitfalls of a question too general to handle, and will break it down...
View Article9 Things We Can't Believe Didn't Exist Before 2005
Huffington Post - It's been a full nine years since The Huffington Post emerged into the virtual world, and in that time the world has become wildly different place. Glancing into the rearview mirror,...
View ArticleFacebook Is Putting The Focus Back On Direct Response And FBX-Powered Ads
Business Insider - Facebook has focused a lot of its paid ad products on branding â ads that tout a business and build positive feelings about the brand. Search, meanwhile, has always been the...
View ArticleSeafood industry group visited the New Orleans tourism food truck in Austin
New Orleans Times-Picayune - The Gulf Seafood Institute, an industry group covering Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi, highlighted the recent visit by a New Orleans tourism-promoting food truck...
View Article$35K lost in Anonymous feud, Denver man blamed
KMGH ABC Denver - A dispute over thousands of dollars in missing money has led to a fight over control of a news feed run for Anonymous hacktivists and centers on members in Denver.
View ArticleErasing Your Engagement From The Internet Is Impossible -- I Know, I Tried
Huffington Post - No one is more excited about my wedding than Facebook. Or possibly Google. As they seem to see it, since getting engaged Iâve become an impressionable ATM from which their...
View ArticleFacebook For iOS Tries Popping Up Cards Of Related Content To Browse After...
TechCrunch - Â Facebook is taking a swing at suggesting contextual content to keep you surfing after you share. A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say...
View ArticleCareful Whom You Wish a Happy Birthday on Facebook
Huffington Post - I was taken aback when I saw several people wish my friend Mike Watson a happy birthday on Facebook back in 2013. Nearly 30 people did the same thing this year! Big deal? You bet it...
View ArticleQuantcast CEO Claims Adtech's Hot New $5 Billion Trend Is Ripping Off Clients
Business Insider - The hottest new trend in adtech is "RTB," or real-time bidding. And it's often a way to rip off advertisers, according to Konrad Feldman, CEO of Quantcast, one of the larger players...
View ArticlePinterest Is Sneaking Up on Twitter, Facebook, and Google
New York Magazine - As social networks go, Pinterest doesn't get a whole lot of respect. You don't see lengthy dissections of its news feed algorithms, worried hand-wringing about its future, or...
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