Big Brands Are Growing More Quickly On Twitter Than Facebook (According To Optimal)
# 2013-06-17 13:16:52, TechCrunch
Here's a fun comparison from Optimal, a social advertising and analytics startup: If you look at big brands on social networks, their following seems to be growing more quickly on Twitter than on Facebook. Optimal says it looked at the data from 4,330 brands, representing a total of 3.49 billion Fa...PalTalk: It Was “Flattering” To Be Included In The PRISM Slidedeck
# 2013-06-17 12:51:37, TechCrunch
The eyesore of a PowerPoint deck that contractor Edward Snowden had leaked had globally recognized names: Microsoft. Google. Yahoo. Facebook. Apple. AOL. Skype. YouTube. The NSA had allegedly collaborated with all of these Internet giants to request and access data on foreign users. But then there w...This Is The Best Ad Campaign In App History
# 2013-06-17 06:44:18, TechCrunch
What better way for an anti-social app to get noticed than by insulting its target audience? London-based app design studio ustwo has just put up a pair of billboards in the hipster heartland of Shoreditch, East London, a stone's throw from where its own studio is based, which brazenly proclaim: You...Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20
# 2013-06-17 01:55:17, TechCrunch
We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely. On June 20, a source says Facebook will unveil that Instagram, its popular...Security Psychology And Why Even Messy Numbers Of Government Data Demands Are Valuable
# 2013-06-15 07:24:03, TechCrunch
People assume the worst. So when it comes to counting government "requests" for private data, a hard number, even a high number, is far better than the fear of infinity. That's why tech giants are fighting to show they aren't open books surrendered to the NSA. They want to prove only the suspicious ...With Big-Name Backing And Some eBay Flavor, These Startups Are Looking To Shake Up The Art Market
# 2013-06-14 11:38:44, TechCrunch
Ebay is generally credited with being the first company to bring auctions -- a system that, for nearly 2,500 years, had exclusively taken place live in noisy, public (and offline) forums -- into the Digital Era. But, today, in spite of the fact that eCommerce has become a thriving global industry, w...Facebook Will Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event
# 2013-06-14 10:54:11, TechCrunch
The upcoming death of Google Reader, mentions of RSS in Facebook's code, and the addition of hashtags signal Facebook will likely launch a news reader at the June 20th press event it's just sent out mysterious invites to. A news reader app and web product could take advantage of Facebook's treasure ...Heyzap Says Its Mobile Ad Network Has Grown To 800 Games (And Makes Up The Majority Of Its Revenue)
# 2013-06-14 09:38:20, TechCrunch
Back in March, I wrote about how Heyzap was introducing advertising to its mobile gaming platform. Now co-founder Jude Gomila says the company has become a significant player in mobile advertising. Specifically, Gomila sent along the chart showing the growth in publishers running Heyzap ads and the...Fly Or Die: Divvy
# 2013-06-14 07:06:03, TechCrunch
As photo-sharing truly hits its stride, an entire ecosystem is born around it. But what is creation without consumption? That's what Divvy is all about. We met the folks behind Divvy at the TC Meetup + Pitch-Off. At it's core, the app aggregates all your photos from Facebook and Instagram (Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox all coming soon) into ...Songbird Sings Its Last Tune As Music Service Runs Out Of Money And Plans To Shut Down June 28
# 2013-06-14 02:35:17, TechCrunch
Songbird, an early digital music service that aimed to compete against the iTunes, Pandoras and Spotifies of this world with an open source platform, is shutting down on June 28, after running out of money and failing to find a buyer. The startup, backed by Sequoia, Atlas Venture and Phillips, had r...Facebook Begins Its Ad Consolidation By Eliminating ‘Sponsored Results' In Search
# 2013-06-13 08:00:12, TechCrunch
Last week, Facebook announced that it will be streamlining the ad-buying process by eliminating more than half of its 27 ad units. Today it's taking one step towards that goal by announcing that it will be eliminating the Sponsored Results unit starting in July. The unit officially launched in Augu...API Code Could Point To Facebook Building An RSS Reader
# 2013-06-13 07:46:37, TechCrunch
Move over Reeder, Feedly, Digg, NewsBlur, Feedbin and the rest of the RSS players who hope to pick up some new users with the impending demise of Google Reader. Facebook may also be looking to wade into the game.Foursquare Tries To Find Revenue By Turning Your Data Into A Samsung Galaxy S4 Ad
# 2013-06-13 06:30:20, TechCrunch
Foursquare this morning has launched a pretty new visualization feature called Foursquare Time Machine, which offers a new way to view a history of your check-ins on an interactive map. And oh, it's also an advertisement for Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone. Hey, look, Foursquare is trying to make ...Twitter Opens Up Tweet Performance Analytics To All, For Free
# 2013-06-13 03:23:06, TechCrunch
Twitter now provides you with pretty extensive metrics and analytics for the performance of your tweets via its Ads dashboard (via TNW), in a move that looks designed to get more people (including individuals) aware of and using the Twitter Ads platform. The new free analytics dashboard access allow...What's Fueling Growth In The Fragmented World Of Messaging Apps? Immigrants.
# 2013-06-13 00:45:51, TechCrunch
Even though it might seem intuitive that one messaging app will rule them all, WeChat, Line, WhatsApp and others are proving that messaging remains a stubbornly fragmented category with many geographic regions of the world seeing different leaders. KakaoTalk rules in South Korea, while WeChat domina...WhatsApp Still Killing It By Messaging Volume Despite Free Rivals Crowding In
# 2013-06-13 00:14:42, TechCrunch
Along with Skype, WhatsApp is the granddaddy of the mobile messaging app space. But despite its relative great age it appears to be continuing to build usage momentum. Earlier today WhatsApp announced a new daily messaging metric record, following on from its recent "bigger than Twitter" boast. Its ...Tuenti Launches Zero Cost Data Tied To Its Social Network (With PRISM-Free Privacy)
# 2013-06-12 23:34:58, TechCrunch
You might not have heard of Spanish social network Tuenti, but it was acquired by Telefonica back in 2010 for $99 million and has garnered over 14 million users. Since then it's opened up to worldwide users in most languages, launched new apps (Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Firefox ...RelateIQ Launches With $29M From Formation 8, Dustin Moskovitz And More To Be Your Next-Gen Relation...
# 2013-06-12 18:35:51, TechCrunch
Last summer, word started to trickle out about a young, stealth startup called RelateIQ that was rumored to be one of the more ambitious players among the new (and expanding) class of Big Data startups. Adam Evans and Steve Loughlin had founded RelateIQ the summer before to tackle some enduring prob...The Twitter #Music Website Fills Out Its Artist Profiles With Tweeted Tracks And Similar Artists
# 2013-06-12 13:46:53, TechCrunch
It looks like Twitter #Music has gotten a couple of improvements on the web — specifically to its individual artist profiles. Previously, the artist page just pointed to the other artists that they were following. So the profile page for Fun., for example, pointed to the other musicians followed ...MySpace Punishes Its Few Remaining Friends By Vanishing Their Blogs
# 2013-06-12 13:04:41, TechCrunch
Obviously MySpace has very few friends left to alienate -- Tom has long since moved on -- but that hasn't stopped it annoying the hell out of its few remaining fans by forcing through an update to its shiny new music discovery platform that's swallowed their old blog content, with no guarantee it's ...Facebook Just Hijacked Every Ad Mentioning Twitter Hashtags
# 2013-06-12 08:11:21, TechCrunch
“[Twitter bird logo] #brand” just became an endangered species. Hashtags are becoming universal as Facebook will start supporting them. That neutralizes an important growth vector for Twitter. Before, each print or tv ad mentioning a hashtag nagged people to join Twitter. Now they can join the r...Facebook adds clickable hashtag support to your News Feed
# 2013-06-12 07:40:00, Engadget
Facebook wants to help you make your conversations just a little more discoverable (if you so desire), and it's decided to finally include a long-missing feature -- clickable hashtags -- to the News Feed. If you've ever enjoyed hashtag searches on Twitter, Instagram or other social networks (som...Facebook Announces Searchable Hashtags, Promises More Features For Following Public Conversations
# 2013-06-12 07:38:00, TechCrunch
Facebook just announced that it is indeed launching ability to follow conversations via hashtags, as was reported in March. In the blog post announcing the new feature, Facebook acknowledges that this isn't exactly a new idea, noting that it will be "similar to other services like Instagram, Twitte...King Quits Advertising Since It Earns So Much On Candy Crush Purchases
# 2013-06-12 06:57:04, TechCrunch
King, the decade-old gaming company that staged a surprising revival through the iPhone and its hit Candy Crush Saga, is abandoning advertising as a source of revenue. Going forward, they’ll be relying solely on virtual currency. (But really, it’s not like they need advertising at this point.) ...Japan's Kii Launches A Publishing Service To Help App Developers Crack The Chinese Market
# 2013-06-12 06:40:54, TechCrunch
Now that China has surpassed the U.S. as the world’s largest smartphone market, it’s no surprise that many developers are intrigued by the prospect of a country that may have 500 million devices in circulation by the end of next year. Because of that, plenty of companies like Yodo1, iDreamSky an...MySpace redesigns its iOS app, offers social radio and animated GIFs
# 2013-06-12 03:33:00, Engadget
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent themselves in a desperate attempt to regain relevance. Speaking of which, MySpace has redesigned its iOS app to offer users the chance to upload animated GIFs and stream "social radio," designed to help you discover new artists. It's available for fr...Synkio's ‘Soundcloud For Licensed Music' Tries To Take Pain Out Of Soundtrack Mess
# 2013-06-12 03:11:55, TechCrunch
The sheer amount of media produced by film makers, advertisers and ad agencies is exploding. And of course, literally everything from a TV ad to an app like Angry Birds needs a soundtrack. That means money. So-called 'synch deals' with this soundtrack music grew in 2011 by 5.7 per cent to US$342 mil...WTF Is Waze And Why Did Google Just Pay A Billion+ For It?
# 2013-06-11 18:01:15, TechCrunch
The tech industry has seen its fair share of acquisition whoppers lately, with Salesforce acquiring ExactTarget for $2.5 billion this month, and Yahoo putting the icing on its acquisition spree by snatching up Tumblr for $1.1 billion. But the news today that Google is buying popular iOS map and navi...Microsoft letting users choose Yammer as default social network in Office 365
# 2013-06-11 09:58:00, Engadget
Since enterprise-level social networking isn't really our bag, we haven't been paying that much attention to Yammer after Microsoft's paid $1.2 billion to buy it. Still, as part of Redmond's project to merge Twitter-for-business with Office 365, organizations can now make Yammer the primary shar...Zuckerberg Is (Still) Disappointed By Facebook Stock, Says He's ‘Well-Versed' In Its Ad Business
# 2013-06-11 09:30:17, TechCrunch
Before Mark Zuckerberg started the question-and-answer session at today's Facebook shareholder meeting, he noted that many of the pre-submitted questions focused on the performance of Facebook's stock since IPO. It's a familiar question, and he offered comments similar to ones that he's made before ...
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