You are here: Home / Archives for techcrunch

How LinkedIn put on a PR Masterstroke

February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Ah, the joys of being in the top 1%…Alas, it’s been a few days now since I got the ‘great’ news from LinkedIn, and since then my joy has been replaced by other, more unpleasant feelings: confusion, acceptance, a little more confusion and finally, appreciation. I know it’s been some time since everybody got the [...]

Filed Under: LinkedIn, Marketing Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Russian Giant Yandex Has Secretly Built A Killer Facebook Search Engine App Codenamed “Wonder”

January 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Yandex, the Google of Russia, has built a voice-activated visual search engine for Facebook. Codenamed “Wonder,” the mobile app lets people ask what businesses friends have visited and what content they’ve consumed, sources confirm. The question is if Facebook will permit the app. Its policy prohibits use of its data in search engines without permission, [...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,

Inside Snapchat, The Little Photo-Sharing App That Launched A Sexting Scare

December 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

  It started with an assumption, really. Snapchat, a photo-sharing application that auto-destroys images seconds after being opened, launched in September 2011 with zero media coverage. A homegrown product, built by two Stanford guys, grew to now see over 50 million snaps per day today. In fact, Facebook launched a clone of the app just [...]

Filed Under: Mobile, Technology Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,

What’s Up With Whatsapp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That’s What

December 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

  Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to sources close to the matter. We’re still digging around on potential price and other details about how advanced the deal is. But as mobile [...]

Filed Under: Business, Technology Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Meet Shine: The Elegant Activity Tracker That Has A Neat Trick For Syncing With The iPhone | TechCrunch

November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

  Several months ago, we found out that a company co-founded by Apple’s former CEO John Sculley and a couple of hardware veterans who make those iPhone-connected glucose meters popular with diabetics were working on some stealth wearable computing concepts. Their company Misfit Wearables raised $7.6 million in a round led by Founders Fund and [...]

Filed Under: Health, Technology Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,

Napkin Labs Launches Fan Center To Help Brands Beef Up Facebook Engagement

September 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

When we wrote about Napkin Labs last year, the Boulder-based startup was focused on a familiar problem: How to help brands and businesses wade through the noise of social networks and better engage (and collaborate with) their customers. To do this, the startup created an online lab space that functioned as a collaborative community in [...]

Filed Under: Content Marketing, Facebook Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Investors Are Salivating Over Zuckerberg’s Plans For Search. Here’s Why

September 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Facebook’s share price has rocketed up from $19.46 to $22.00 since Mark Zuckerberg talked at TechCrunch Disrupt Tuesday, and numerous sources in the investment community tell us it was his declaration that Facebook will tackle search that excited them most. Rather than incremental increases in revenue that better ad units [...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Facebook Has A Big New Problem You Need To Worry About

September 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said several encouraging things when he spoke at a tech conference yesterday.One thing he didn’t address, however, is the rate at which Facebook’s desktop usage is declining in its most mature market–the U.S. Zuckerberg also didn’t comment on another ominous Facebook trend: The usage declines are most pronounced among those who [...]

Filed Under: Facebook, Technology Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Facebook Subscription Payments Go Live, But Will Spotify and Netflix Pay The 30% Tax? | TechCrunch

August 14, 2012 By 1 Comment

See on Scoop.it – Internet Billboards Internet News If Facebook could collect its 30% tax on what we pay monthly for Spotify, Hulu, or Netflix using the subscription payments system it’s rolling out today, it’d have nice new revenue stream to swim in. See on techcrunch.com

Filed Under: Facebook, Technology Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Facebook’s Enhanced Targeting: A Boon For Social Media Marketing

August 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Do you ever wonder if the content you’re sharing over Facebook and other social media channels is actually reaching the target audience you had in mind? Well luckily for you, just last week Facebook revealed a powerful new social media marketing tool called “Page Post Targeting Enhanced.”Although not a ton of information has been released [...]

Filed Under: Content Marketing, Facebook Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Ramani’s blog

August 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

See on Scoop.it – Photos4Share Enjoy, Inform, Be Informed… See on ramanan50.wordpress.com

Filed Under: Entertainment, Online Curators Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

10 Top Social Media Influencers

August 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago, I told you I planned to do a series of interviews with the 10 most influential people in social media I could find. Doing an interview with 10 people, even a relatively short/fun one, takes a lot more time than I thought. I’m really an unstructured data analyst during the day and [...]

Filed Under: Content Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: , , , , , , ,
«Older Posts