Facebook is updating its ad algorithms to give users more say about what kinds of ads they see in their news feeds.
An offshoot of a push that began this summer to provide users with more information about the organic...
If autocorrect has ever ruined your Facebook post, your prayers have been answered. Facebook introduced the ability to edit status updates starting Thursday.
The latest update for the Android Facebook app adds the ability to "edit your posts and comments and tap...
The world is faster, and more connected, than ever before: that pace and those networks just keep growing.
As individuals, businesses and societies we are now linked in ways that would have been unimaginable just a couple of decades ago,...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani tweeted historic news on Friday afternoon before quickly deleting it. Then, minutes later, he tweeted about the conversation again.
The screenshot below shows Rouhani's initial tweet, a sentence fragment that indicates he had just spoken on...
In light of BlackBerry's acquisition and the debut of iOS 7, it's been another busy week for smartphone news
On Monday, BlackBerry was purchased by Fairfax Financial Holdings for $4.7 billion. For many readers, the only thing more surprising than the acquisition was that...
Carl Icahn is going to meet with Tim Cook on Monday, September 30 in NYC, according to CNBC (via Bloomberg Terminal).
Icahn recently bought a small stake in Apple. He's been a loud advocate for the company to crank up...
When Chinese heartthrob Chen Kun offered his fans morning wakeup calls over WeChat for a fee, teenage girls weren't the only ones who snapped to attention. Marketers started calling their digital agencies, trying to gauge how the latest innovation...
eBay announced today that it will buy Braintree, an electronic payments company, for $800 million in cash.
Braintree is a rival to eBay's own PayPal, so the deal effectively eliminates a competitor.
Here's the press release:
SAN JOSE, Calif. & CHICAGO, Ill.--(BUSINESS...
Now when you search for a hashtag keyword (e.g. #AmericasCup) in Google Search, you'll be shown a series of relevant content on Google+.
It is the latest strategic move by Google to broadcast more organic content being posted on Google+....
"National Bullying Prevention Month," isn't until October, but social media sites are already gearing up for the conversation
Facebook released a social media safety manual Wednesday to help parents, children, and educators better understand and safely utilize the platform. The...
Australians have adopted smartphones and tablets into everyday culture faster than consumers in many other developed economies
There are several explanations as to why. Geography is one factor. Like the United States, Australia is a continent-sized country, and mobile communication offers...
The share of emails opened on a mobile device is now approaching 50%, according to research. Gmail’s May launch of tabbed inboxes has had a clear effect on opens, leading many users to interact less with promotional messages sent...
The interconnectedness of the global economy has meant trouble in Western Europe has touched many countries in Central and Eastern Europe as well, hampering media spend. But Russia is still going strong, according to eMarketer’s latest Global Media Intelligence...
The annual Social Good Summit continued Monday in New York City. The conversation extended beyond New York to over 120 Meetups around the world, as well as online using the hashtag #2030Now.
This year, Social Good Summit speakers and participants focused on one question: How...
Facebook users and advocacy groups are calling on a California appeals court to review a controversial settlement that would see the social network pay $20 million to resolve claims that it showed users’ photos in ads without permission.
The multiple...
It’s easy to assume that US consumers who purchase travel packages are looking for a faster, simpler way to navigate the complex travel-planning process by buying everything all together. Research shows that this is not always the case, however....
More than 200 of Afghanistan’s most active users of Twitter and Facebook gathered Sunday for the country’s first-ever social media summit to explore how the Internet is transforming traditional society.
Two days of panel discussions and workshops are being live-streamed,...
The folks who run BlackBerry were apparently among the last to realize how dire the company’s situation has become.
In July, at the beginning of a quarter that saw the company lose $1 billion and ended with the announcement that...
The iPhone 5S and 5C are officially available for purchase this morning.
How many will Apple sell during the first weekend of sales?
Apple analysts have relatively conservative forecasts, calling for 5 million units at the low end, and 7.75 million...
US digital video ads are seeing increased use and varying levels of performance. Research finds that women actually see a greater share of video ads than men, while younger viewers were by far and away the most common video...
