Samsung took a first step towards connecting the living room to the internet of things Monday with the introduction of its new Smart TV SDK, which offers some basic integration of smart devices into the TV experience.
Owners of 2013...
Vycarious, a new social-media app that is available for iOS, lets you create, follow and comment on friends' experiences, ranging from a two-week vacation to handcrafting a dinner table.
To start, users create an "experience description," such as "cooking Pad...
When Google+ entered the social space in 2011, it was met largely with skepticism. Joining a crowded field with platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, many users questioned the need for another social network.
But roughly two years later, Google+...
In its most recent update, Vine introduced a tool that allows users to edit individual frames within a post. This means you can create a rewind effect in your videos by rearranging the order of your frames.
For this week's...
It may have been easy to overlook how crowded with ads Google's search results pages have become over the last couple years. But it's hard to miss the latest example: Google has begun to place large banner-size images atop...
Social network ad spending levels are dramatically different in Western Europe vs. Central and Eastern Europe, eMarketer estimates, but the coming trends are similar. Growth will remain solidly in the double digits in coming years, and social outlays as...
Our new app for Windows 8 is live and available in the Windows 8 Store. It’s all the great content and articles you get from our desktop site optimized for Win8 and devices like the Surface tablet. We focused...
Twitter beat out Facebook in the battle for teenagers' preferred social networks for online shopping. In a recent survey of teens' retail behavior, participants were asked about their favorite networks, and 26% responded that it was Twitter.
Facebook and Instagram...
Instagram's cautious roll-out of its in-stream ads is now underway.
U.S. users who open the app in the coming week will see an "educational ad" from Instagram itself, according to a blog post. Confirmed advertisers to follow it are Adidas,...
There's a new app out that's encouraging teenagers to send witty responses in lieu of "sexts", Betabeat reports.
The organization, a British charity called Childline, aims to give teens the tools to defuse the pressure to send, share or collect these...
A filing from Twitter provides further pricing details about the year’s most highly-anticipated IPO. In an amendment to the S-1 it filed earlier with the SEC, Twitter says it will issue 70 million shares at a price between $17 and...
Apple has spent the past year figuring out who it wants to be. Its once charming and cool commercials transitioned into mini-melodramas this summer about the reason for Apple's existence, which failed to register with viewers. And so Apple boosted...
Multiple reports, including from the BBC and CNN, are suggesting that Facebook has given users the green light to once again post graphic videos of beheadings to the social network.
The BBC, which originally reported the change, wrote that Facebook...
BBC Global News has struck a deal to serve sponsored video clips inside paid tweets via Twitter's growing Amplify program, according to the companies.
BBC.com has begun producing a series of short-form videos called "#BBCTrending" to appear in Twitter streams...
YouTube has expanded the pilot program, first launched in May, that lets select partners sell subscriptions to their channels. It’s now available to all channels that have over 10,000 subscribers and meet some other requirements.
The company announced on its...
There'll be business school cases written about the rise and fall of BlackBerry, not to mention its latest feat of losing almost a billion dollars in three months so it could fill warehouses with stacks of unsold smartphones that...
Facebook, like most websites, has its bugs. But it's rare for the entire site to suddenly stop working as it did Monday morning. The news spread across other social media platforms, such as Twitter and Tumblr — some complained...
Every dog has its day and now, every dog has its app.
From ones to help track vet appointments to those that help train your pup, there are some awesome virtual ways to improve your relationship with your favorite canine.
Some...
This year, Twitter-owned Vine grew a whopping 403% between the first and third quarters of 2013 according to Mashable, Statista and GlobalWebIndex. (Growth was measured in terms of new users.)
That makes the video app the fastest-growing app of the...
Google Glass might not be the only big name in connected eyewear if Microsoft has anything to say about. Redmond is reportedly testing prototypes for a Google Glass competitor, according to the Wall Street Journal. Details are scarce, but...
