Every social media company knows that enhancing the mobile user experience is necessary for a network's success. But among all the app updates, bug fixes and design changes, how much time do users actually spend on social media with their mobile...
Facebook and the purchase of Titan Aerospace, manufacturer of the Solara 60 drones, solar energy-powered devices that can fly non-stop for 5 years
Synergies between digital technologies and renewable sources work both ways, so there is a mutual benefit. If...
Sell Hack has taken down its "Hack In" tool, which previously allowed LinkedIn users to obtain email addresses from the professional network's database.
In a blog post on Tuesday, Sell Hack wrote that its plug-in no longer works with LinkedIn pages.
Sell hack also confirmed...
Facebook launched a brand-new, dedicated "news" app called "Paper" on Feb. 3, but just two months later, popularity of the app has tanked.
On launch day, it was the No. 1 social networking app, and the No. 1 app in...
If you've posted to Facebook recently, you may have noticed a new graphic with a prehistoric twist: the privacy dinosaur
The company is testing a pop-up reminder that encourages users to pay attention to who they're sharing with on its platform, and...
If you try to log on to OkCupid using Firefox, you'll get a message from the dating site urging you to use a different browser to protest the fact that Mozilla's new CEO doesn't support gay rights.
This is the...
It seems like Facebook isn't the only one looking to expand lately.
Yahoo is in talks to buy online-video service News Distribution Network (NDN), according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources. According to those sources, Yahoo...
This little startup has some big ideas.
It's called Breeze (it used to be called Zephyr), and it wants to make a name for itself in the ride-sharing world: It's renting out its 25 brand-new Toyota Priuses to people who want to...
Apple® today announced TD-LTE capable models of iPad Air™ and iPad mini™ with Retina® display, bringing high-speed LTE performance* to iPad® customers in China, are available starting today. The new iPad models give customers the ability to connect to...
More than 300 restaurants across the U.S. have been funded with the help of Kickstarter, according to a map released by the site last week.
Kickstarter has increasingly become a valuable resource for budding restaurateurs. Some even speculate that the crowdfunding site could be...
During the week of March 24-30, Twitter users gained special access to more than 630 European museums and galleries simply by following #MuseumWeek.
The week-long celebration connected culture lovers all around the world with art works, history, science and literature in...
Facebook claims nearly all orders from social media—85%—according to research. However, it doesn’t rule when it comes to average order value, landing in fourth place behind Polyvore, Instagram and Pinterest.
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Source: eMarketer.com.
The search function in Apple's App Store is notoriously bad. When we tried searching for anonymous app Secret, it took 107 tries before we found the actual app.
Fnd.io is a new service that may have a solution for this.
It's a Web page lets...
We now live in an era when Mark Zuckerberg speed-dials Obama, controls fleets of drones, brokers $19 billion acquisitions in a week, and buys whole virtual worlds. Facebook's mission has changed. While once it was soley "To make the...
More than half of internet users in the Middle East and Africa are Facebookers. However, usage varies by country, and it is highest in Egypt and Jordan. Across the region, Facebook users skew young.
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Source: eMarketer.com.
In case anyone doubted Twitter's commitment to photo-sharing — or to becoming more like Facebook — the company added a couple of features Wednesday that made its direction clear.
You can now add four photos to a single tweet and for the first...
We’ve already seen Philips’s clever indoor lighting platform that acts as a fine-grained indoor location-tracking system for shops, but now the Dutch conglomerate is preparing to unveil something for the office.
Next week at the Light + Building show in Frankfurt, Germany,...
Social-savvy brands have been using Twitter to engage with fans and followers for years, but since we know most of them aren't advertising, what are they using the service for?
According to a recent Social Media Marketing University survey of more than 1,000 marketing...
Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies on Wednesday.
Journalists spotted that ministers at a cabinet meeting were no longer using Apple tablets, and minister Nikolai Nikiforov...
LinkedIn is introducing some new tools for businesses hoping to attract a following with their LinkedIn content. First up, there's a content marketing score, which measures the total effectiveness of a businesses' LinkedIn content. It's calculated by taking the...
