Daily Blitz
The following is an excerpt from Tiernan Ray | May 20, 2013 | Barrons.com |
Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer is holding court at 2 Times Square in New York, where the topic is “How we can make Flickr awesome again,” referring to the company’s photo-sharing service.
Mayer offered some brief remarks ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Ryan W. Neal | May 1, 2013 | ibtimes.com |
When it comes to protecting personal data from the government, Twitter does the best job at it among leading technology companies, according to a recent report, with Dropbox, Google and LinkedIn ranked just behind it.
MySpace ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from CBSNews.com | May 1, 2013 |
Facebook (FB) says its net income and revenue grew in the first quarter of the year, helped by an increase in mobile ad revenue.
Facebook Inc. said Wednesday that its net income was $219 million, or 9 cents per share, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Julianne Pepitone | May 1, 2013 | CNN.com |
Facebook finally decided to concentrate on mobile late last year, and its shares have recovered nicely from their post-IPO doldrums. To keep that momentum going, Facebook needs to prove that its mobile strategy is working.
Investors are ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Matthew Jarzemsky | April 24, 2013 | WSJ.com |
When Twitter proved an unreliable source of information Tuesday, traders turned to a form of communication that predates the digital age: the squawk box.
For decades, Wall Street professionals who make a living acting on market information ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Ryan Mac | April 17, 2013 | Forbes.com |
Alexander Ljung looks a little lost crossing Wilshire Boulevard. The black track jacket and red-streaked Nike Frees are standard-issue L.A., but the cigarette and frown betray the European roots of the 31-year-old CEO of SoundCloud. It’s ... Read More
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You gotta give Facebook credit for being willing to get weird.
Latest example: The social giant’s new commercial for Facebook Home, the brand new software that turns your plain ol’ Android phone into a Facebook phone.
It features a daydreaming employee messing around on the new device, and of course has CEO ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Parmy Olson | April 11, 2013 | Forbes.com |
Messaging app KakaoTalk is gearing up to release an Android launcher that will be similar to the mobile product Facebook announced last week called Home.
KakaoTalk’s co-CEO Sirgoo Lee revealed the plans in an interview with Forbes, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Ina Fried | April 6, 2013 | allthingsd.com |
Although Facebook Home won’t be available for another week or so, the social network has begun a major ad campaign pitching customers on its new Android software.
On its own mobile and desktop sites, Facebook is pushing ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Matt Nesto | April 4, 2013 | Yahoo.com |
Nearly three years after Facebook (FB) and Taiwanese device-maker HTC first offered up the unpopular ChaCha and Salsa phones to highlight the social networking site, they're at it again. Only this time, there's a twist. With ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Dan Milano | March 26, 2013 | abcnews.go.com |
They’re popping up on Facebook news feeds around the nation, but without much explanation. Just what are those red equal-sign Facebook profile pictures all about? Look no further than the Human Rights Campaign, an organization in ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Barbara Ortutay | March 7, 2013 | Time.com |
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid chatter of “Facebook fatigue,” real or imagined, the world’s biggest social networking company is getting ready to unveil a new version of News Feed, the flow of status updates, photos and advertisements ... Read More
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