Posts Tagged ‘social network’

HTC First Features Facebook Home, Exclusively on AT&T for $99

On Saturday, April 6th, 2013
HTC First Facebook Home The Facebook Phone is finally here. Under the name HTC First, the smartphone will run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and will have more Facebook influence than other smartphones due to the new Facebook Home feature, which basically integrates the social network service deeper into the operating system. See also Barack Obama Unveils $100M BRAIN Project To ...

Twitter and Square Co-founder Wants to Be The Mayor of NYC

On Monday, March 18th, 2013
Bloomberg and Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey, one of the co-founders of the popular social network Twitter and Square, the mobile payments company, announced during an interview with Lara Logan at CBS’s 60 Minutes, that he is thinking about moving to New York City and running for the mayor position someday. He currently lives in San Francisco and he is originally from ...

Pinterest Releases Web Analytics for Businesses

On Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
pinterest Today, Pinterest launched a new tool called Web Analytics, which can be used to track brands’ popularity on the social network. It is a simple and free tool to find out how many people are pinning images from your site, how many people are seeing those pins, referral traffic,  the total number of repins, as ...

Twitter Lets You Search Old Tweets Now

On Friday, February 8th, 2013
twitter_1857381b Until now we were able only to search tweets no older than a week. Twitter announced today the plan to enable people to search old tweets. Not all the tweets will be kept for the beginning; for the moment those to be kept will be determined by clicks, retweets and other factors, according to the ...

Google+ iOS App Available in 48 New Countries and Territories

On Friday, January 18th, 2013
Google+ iOS app Google has released its Google+ iOS app (for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) for 48 new countries and territories. It was originally launched in July 2011; in one year and a half of existence, Google+ app has reached version 4.2, adding support for iPad, iPhone 5 and iOS 6. Here is the full list of ...

New MySpace Relaunched With the Help of Justin Timberlake

On Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
New MySpace The new MySpace site has launched to the public, and Justin Timberlake, which is the social network’s co-owner, is helping build it.  The completely redesigned social network is now open to the public, allowing anyone to sign-up for an account, create a profile and start experimenting the new features. It coincided with the release of ...

100 Social Networking Statistics and Facts for 2012 (INFOGRAPHIC)

On Friday, January 4th, 2013
100 Social Networking Statistics Each day Facebook users spend 10.5 Billion minutes, about 20,000 years, on this social network, 58% of them return daily, there are added 250 million photos daily and over 500 million likes. Oh…and 1 out of every 7 minutes spent online is spent on…Facebook! Google+ comes in second with 75 million daily users, Linkedin has ...

Randi Zuckerberg Having a Facebook Freakout Over Photo Going Viral

On Saturday, December 29th, 2012
randi zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, Randi, got stymied by Facebook’s privacy policy this week when a photo she posted for her friends was shared publicly over Twitter. Twitter user @cshweitz shared a photo of the Zuckerberg family checking out Poke, the latest mobile app developed by Facebook, early Wednesday. Digital etiquette: always ask permission before posting a ...

Facebook Internships Probably Worth More Money Than Your Job

On Saturday, December 15th, 2012
Facebook internships   According to a new report, interns at the social network earn $25,000 more than the average American. Citing salary information collected by Glassdoor.com’s Employee Choice Awards, Business Insider reports that Facebook pays interns about $5,602 every month. The company’s interns make between $5,600 and $6,300 per month, the equivalent of $65,000 to $75,000 per ...

4 Tools That Make Group Gifting Easier

On Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
gifts for christmas It is the time for pitching in for a holidays gift at work and the last thing you want to do is deal with cash or keep track of who gave what. To make your life easier check out these 4 tools that will help with our social obligations. 1. eBay Group Gifts This is ...

Can Google Play Beat iTunes and Amazon? (INFOGRAPHIC)

On Monday, December 10th, 2012
Google Play iTunes and Amazon MP3 have long been crowned as rulers of the online music market. However, Google have released their own version, called Google Play, in the hope of overthrowing them. Does this underdog have what it takes? The social network Google+ is fully integrated with Google Play, so you can share, play and listen ...

COO Sheryl Sandberg Sells 946K Facebook Shares For $26.2M Gain

On Sunday, December 9th, 2012
sheryl-sandberg Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is turning more of her virtual wealth into actual wealth. After the close of market today, Facebook disclosed in an SEC filing that Sandberg sold shares valued at more than $26.2 million. Sandberg picked a very good time to sell as her 906,412 shares went for $27.678, and another 40,176 shares were sold at $27.7403 ...

Microsoft Opens Its Own Social Network, Socl, After Beta Testing

On Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
microsoft-socl-12-05-12-01 Microsoft has opened its own social networking site Socl to the general public, whereas before only a small subset of individuals had access as beta testers. The social network is still in beta version, so users need to keep that in mind when using it. Socl initially launched this May this year. It’s a search-meets-social ...

Start-Up Chile Hosts Its 3rd Demo Day, Announcing 105 Startups

On Friday, November 30th, 2012
start-up-chile   Start-Up Chile is a program created by the Chilean Government, executed by Corfo via InnovaChile, that seeks to attract early stage, high-potential entrepreneurs to bootstrap their startups in the country, using it as a platform to go global. The end goal of the accelerator program is to convert Chile into the definitive innovation and entrepreneurial hub of ...

Use Twitter As An Emergency Tool: Even Without Internet Access

On Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
STORM-SANDY-OBAMA Twitter became more than just a social network, it is an indispensable hub of information and updates about Hurricane Sandy and its devastating effects to the East Coast of the U.S. Because in many cases emergency management authorities cannot send emergency alerts through the regular outlets that need electricity, they are increasingly using social media to let everybody know about ...