When Twitter launched its new Ads API — an “application programming interface” that allows advertisers to more easily plug in and run promoted tweets on Twitter — last month, a bunch of social media ad buyers breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Twitter’s guilty secret is that the old API was so more…
Facebook has ported its Pages Manager app to the Android operating system.
Facebook’s Pages Manager app had been available on Apple’s iOS for some time, allowing Page administrators to edit their pages. Now the firm has ported the software to the more…
Twitter has updated its mobile app for iOS and Android, improving the search and discovery functions.
Announcing the updates in a blog post, Twitter’s engineering manager of Search and Relevance Daniel Loreto said users can now preview article summaries and photos in both more…
It has been fairly obvious for a few years that the search-driven, URL-centric web would converge with the web of social objects. It is something that is driving Google’s paranoia. It is also something Facebook dreams about. However, the company most likely to capture the opportunity is Twitter, the San Francisco-based company that started life as a more…
Facebook’s apparent interest in Israeli image recognition startup Face.com could rely on an unexpected partner – the Russian search engine Yandex, according to reports.
Rumors that Mark Zuckerberg is interested in purchasing first emerged on Monday, more…
Social media presents great risks as it does rewards for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Among social media’s shortcomings: it doesn’t convert prospects to customers with the same ease that search does. Fortunately, as Facebook continues to open up more opportunities for local targeting, social media is becoming more feasible.
With an increasing number of SMBs exploring the power of social media, here is a list of potential pitfalls to avoid with guidance from more…
LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million.
It will be 45% cash and 55% stock. SlideShare allows users to upload documents to the web and have them embedded all over the place. more…
Facebook has purchased Instagram for $1 billion, reeling in an increasingly popular photo-sharing app as well one of the bigger social networks. Even though Instagram just released its Android version on April 3, it had 27 million users in March.
Instagram’s iPhone-only growth has been staggering. more…
