Facebook on Thursday announced the opening of its first engineering office in Boston, Mass., not far from where Mark Zuckerberg started the social network from his Harvard dorm room
The Boston office is Facebook's fifth engineering office worldwide, joining Seattle,...
Each social network has its own greatest-hits list. YouTube had "The Evolution of Dance." Facebook seems to generate million-like stories about kids and puppies every other week. Many of Tumblr's most-noted stories feature cats and/or GIFs
These most-popular stories do...
Argos has launched a new Gift Guide minisite that aims to provide struggling shoppers with inspiration for Christmas presents.
It sits separately from the retailer’s existing ecommerce site but is linked to from its homepage.
The guide is part of Argos’...
L'Oreal USA has named DigitasLBi as its new digital media planning and buying shop, replacing Publicis Groupe sibling Moxie Interactive, Atlanta. The shift follows a review that also included teams from WPP and Havas as finalists, said Marc Speichert,...
Twitter is now in the home stretch, as tomorrow it finally begins trading in the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TWTR. And, it’s entering the market at $26 — higher than noted in its SEC filing request...
Android-based smartphone users will account for almost half of all UK smartphone users in 2013. And with the recent OS update, KitKat, Google hopes it will resolve some of the fragmentation issues with Android, meaning that it may see...
Twitter and LinkedIn use different metrics to report activity on their sites, measuring monthly active users (MAUs) and monthly unique visitors (MUVs), respectively. This makes user growth comparisons between the two social networks difficult.
However, comScore tracked MUVs in the U.S....
More than 1,500 narrations collected on the storytelling platform. But the numbers do not reflect the importance of the people and their stories, the true value of this initiative, which goes beyond socials and beyond the Web
More than 1,500...
Google has built an empire with a search engine that answers your questions, and now the company hopes humans can do the same.
Google on Tuesday announced Helpouts, a new tool that connects users via live video chat with experts...
Every few weeks, the Apple Reddit forum hosts an "APPreciation thread" where people name their favorite iPhone and iPad apps.
There's 170,000 people on the Apple Reddit forum, and hundreds of them jump in and vote on apps.
We've sifted through...
A new study by information-service company Experian claims that mothers with children under 5 are more active on social media than the general public.
These mothers are twice as likely to post comments on social-networking websites than the rest of...
Justin Bieber has invested $1.1 million in a new social-media startup called Shots of Me.
Not much has been released about the new social network, which is designed specifically for teens, but it will apparently address issues like cyberbullying. The...
About four in 10 adults in Canada read newspapers on digital devices, according to research, and a growing share of that group is eschewing the PC for mobile-only news consumption.
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Justin Bieber ha investito 1,1 milioni dollari in una nuova startup nell'ambito dei social-media chiamata Shots of Me.
Non si sa ancora molto dell nuovo social network, progettato appositamente per gli adolescenti, ma sembra che affronterà temi come quello del...
Everyone knows Apple excels at innovation and thinking differently.
It's the company that gave us iPods and iPhones, iPads and MacBooks...(and the list goes on and on and on).
But not every Apple invention was a grand slam.
Here's a look at...
Perhaps despite expectations to the contrary, boomers are eager to head online, with those over the age of 50 spending an average of five hours on the internet daily. This group also shows a surprising level of comfort with...
Google has been branding itself as the tech company that relates to its users on an emotional level, as seen in a recent ad about a boy leaving college to visit his sick dog at home. Now, it's making a...
Social TV can sometimes seem like a lot of hype. Yes, people are engaging with social media while watching TV, but is it just the latest buzzed-about media trend with limited value to broadcast networks and advertisers?
As broadcasters have...
This year, for the first time, the majority of US internet users will use a tablet, according to a new eMarketer report. Gaming will be the most popular content activity on the devices, with three-quarters of tablet users playing...
If YouTube isn't a media company it sure put a show on like one with its inaugural YouTube Music Awards on the Lower East Side of Manhattan Sunday night.
Official viewership numbers weren't immediately available on Monday morning, but the...
