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Jan 31, 2012 12:33 PM
It remains to be seen whether all social networks can be profitable on advertising alone—and crucially what formats will work best alongside people’s communications with each other—but for now we are at least seeing some big growth in the space.
Posted In: Advertising, Features, Tweets, Search, Companies, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, emarketer, linkedin, twitter
Jan 30, 2012 11:05 AM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives got a rough ride from a House Of Commons committee on Monday, when they declined to systemically filter law-breaking web pages from search results.
Posted In: Legal, Privacy, Companies, Facebook, Google, Twitter
Jan 27, 2012 7:46 AM
The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries.
Jan 25, 2012 6:30 PM
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, TV, Broadcast, Search, Social Media, News Sharing, Photo Sharing, Companies, Facebook, New York Times, Twitter, Washington Post, facebook subscribe
Jan 25, 2012 10:36 AM
Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile phone users’ telephone numbers to websites they visited via O2’s mobile data network.
Posted In: Advertising, Legal, Privacy, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Facebook, Google, Android, Microsoft, O2, T-Mobile, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK
Jan 19, 2012 5:52 PM
A day after the SOPA protest on the web, the hacker group Anonymous has taken the blackout theme to a whole new level: in retaliation for the closure of the Megaupload file-sharing site, and for its own SOPA protest, the group has started to systematically take down a number of…
Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Piracy, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, France, anonymous, anonymousirc
Jan 16, 2012 5:27 AM
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta Monday.
Posted In: Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia
Jan 13, 2012 7:35 AM
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire, Lewis Wiltshire, who oversees social media for BBC Sport. The loss is a keen one for the BBC: among Wiltshire’s responsibilities, he was…
Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Social Media, Companies, BBC, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK, lewis wiltshre, tony wang
Jan 10, 2012 5:54 PM
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the unrelated departure of the site’s managing editor, Nico Pitney. We spoke to Paul earlier about the social-media focused startup that he plans to launch next,…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Companies, AOL, Huffington Post Media Group, BBC, Facebook, Google, Twitter, paul berry
Jan 3, 2012 3:27 PM
Wendi Deng, the wife of news baron Rupert Murdoch, must be fuming after an impostor fooled everyone—including Murdoch’s own company—with a fake Twitter account. She’ll have to live with it.
Posted In: Legal, Trademark, Companies, Twitter, impersonation, wendi deng
Jan 3, 2012 10:45 AM
When the CEO of News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), Rupert Murdoch, joined Twitter a few days ago as an official, verified account, endorsed even by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, some people didn’t believe that it was really him (it is). Today came the followup that proves why seeing is not always believing:…
Posted In: Companies, News Corp., News International, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK, rupert murdoch, wendi deng
Dec 30, 2011 7:00 AM
This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. According to figures from ZenithOptimedia, global advertising revenues will reach $486 billion…
Posted In: Advertising, Features, Tweets, Legal, Privacy, Marketing, Mobile, Money, Research & Metrics, Metrics, Search, Social Media, Companies, Adobe, AOL, Facebook, Google, Groupon, Twitter, Yahoo, Zynga, Countries, Asia, China, coming in 2012
Dec 21, 2011 1:57 AM
Late on Tuesday Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile and Android head honcho for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), gave the world the latest figures on how much Android has grown since first getting launched in October 2008. There are now 700,000 device activations per day, he said—a new milestone for the platform,…
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Twitter, andy rubin
Dec 19, 2011 6:37 AM
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, AOL, Apple, HP, Motorola, News Corp., Time Warner, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia, kingdom holdings, prince alalweed, prince alwaleed bin talal bin abdulaziz alsaud
Dec 9, 2011 6:52 AM
Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to China’s most dynamic microblogging platform, Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo. It shows, perhaps, that Sina’s rapid rate of change on its most popular service is now actually leading the way for Twitter. How the tables have turned!
Posted In: Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Asia, China, sina, weibo
Dec 9, 2011 3:17 AM
Twitter apparently allows its clients to buy adverts using rivals’ brand names. I noticed UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s had bought ads on Twitter.com against searches for rivals like “Tesco”, “Waitrose” and “Lidl”.
Posted In: Advertising, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter
Dec 7, 2011 9:10 AM
Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of quick note-taking, both audio and textual, which is then stored in the cloud for access anywhere. Now Evernote appears to be getting a little more…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Wikis, Companies, Apple, iPhone, iTunes, Facebook, Twitter, evernote
Dec 1, 2011 7:01 AM
Twitter has hired Google’s director of YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) display advertising, Bruce Daisley, as its first UK sales director.
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, Twitter
Oct 5, 2011 12:43 PM
Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s sites, and also how third parties could play a big role in how Facebook goes mobile in the future. Gemalto, a company that makes SIM cards for…
Posted In: Apps, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, SMS, Companies, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Countries, Asia, China, Latin America, Europe, Russia, gemalto
Sep 26, 2011 12:01 PM
Twitter’s decision to open an office in Dublin has prompted an Irish government agency to crow about “Ireland’s dynamic digital media cluster.” This is great publicity for Ireland to be sure, but it’s also a pretty safe bet that the Twitter arrival will bring accountants, not engineers, to the Celtic…
Posted In: E-Commerce, Legal, Regulatory, Companies, Twitter, double irish, tax
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