Pity poor Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom. This afternoon he was forced by total idiots — his own customers, basically — to make a statement saying that no, he won’t be selling your photos to advertisers. Why “idiots”? Because almost NOTHING has changed for users of Instagram since they first signed up. And despite this...
Julie Bort/Business Insider Larry Ellison, speaking at OpenWorld 2012 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says that Oracle’s cloud business is growing largely at the expense of Workday, the new company founded by his old nemesis, Dave Duffield. Oracle launched its cloud, Fusion, in June with CRM apps that compete with Salesforce.com, ERP apps that compete...
Flickr // Cory Booker Zuckerberg with Newark mayor Cory Booker. See Also Everything You Do Becomes Part Of Your Brand Facebook Unleashes A New Feature To Fight Yelp And Foursquare Facebook’s Instagram Changes May Exploit Teen Content Mark Zuckerberg announced today that he is donating 18 million Facebook shares (almost $500 million worth) to...
Yahoo China has announced that it will shut down its Chinese music service due to an adjustment of its product strategy on January 20, 2013. A statement posted on the company’s music search portal reads: “Thank you all for your continued support of Yahoo’s products. As part of an adjustment to our product strategy,...
Cooliris is following tech luminaries like Flipboard and Instagram after announcing the launch of a local version of its multimedia-rich iOS app in China. The Chinese version — which is its first local market customization — notably features integration with Renren, a social network that is commonly referred to as ‘China’s Facebook’. The update brings local language support...
Xiaomi, the up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker that has been compared to Apple, has announced a new partnership with Sina Weibo, the country’s top microblogging platform, to test a new strategy of selling its handsets directly on Weibo. As noted by Sina Tech, the two companies are kicking off their experiment this week. Reservations will...
Several constants dominate the Web. First, someone is going to advertise to you. Second, trolls. Third, and perhaps most important, there will always be pr0n. A lot of it. PornWatchers.com, a search engine for adult tube videos, has released data on two sites (both of which are like YouTube for porn), YouPorn.com and xHamster.com....
I never thought I’d do this, but I quit Instagram yesterday. It wasn’t Instagram’s new terms of service and privacy policy, though those are terrible. I don’t relish the idea of my friends’ faces and data being sold for advertising, but it happens all the time already. No, if I rage-quit social networks for...
I’m going to keep using Instagram. But I can understand why some folks, especially professional photographers, may leave. The service’s recent terms-of-service update trouble me greatly, but it’s not quite a deal-killer for me as an amateur photographer. Plus, I’m hopeful that, after today’s massive backlash, the company will rethink the wording of its...
There’s been a lot written since the horrific events of last weekend about what the media should or shouldn’t have done in trying to cover the shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school — and in particular, about the numerous errors that were published and re-published about almost every element of the incident. But...