UCSF Susan Desmond-Hellmann See Also Grey Poupon Beat All Other Brands With Its Social Media-Driven Oscars Campaign Mark Zuckerberg Is Much Poorer Than He Was Last Year We Got A Super Sketchy Email That Reveals Exactly How Much Facebook ‘Likes’ Are Worth Facebook just named Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the chancellor of the University of...
LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy See Also Now Amazon Veterans Are Running Groupon There’s One Thing That LivingSocial Is Definitely Hiding LivingSocial CEO Fires Back And Calls Damning Report ‘Fiction’ Some good news for the embattled daily-deals sector. LivingSocial, an Amazon-backed online marketing company known for its discounts for local businesses, just booked $8.6 million...
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There’s significant news from social analytics service PeopleBroswr in its legal battle against Twitter’s efforts to cut its access to its data stream. The company just announced that it has won a federal court decision which sees it awarded undisclosed damages and retain its access to the Twitter firehose; its case will make its...
Earlier today, the private social network Path released an update to its service, just in time for the annual South by Southwest Interactive conference. We had a chance to speak with founder Dave Morin and he tells us that the instant messaging and addition of “The Shop” in version 3.0 has been a big...
After deliberating for around an hour, the jury has made its decision. We have reached the climax of the 2013 Launch Festival and twelve awards are set to be given out. After much consideration, organizer Jason Calacanis announced the winners, with Boxbee, Zillabyte and Jawfish Games taking the Launch 1.0 and 2.0 top prizes,...
A white paper issued last week by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology could pose a significant threat to Android. According to the government paper, China’s “mobile operating system research and development is too dependent on Android.” Reuters broke the story Tuesday. Should the Ministry take action to limit Android within the country,...
Let’s be honest — does anyone really go to South by Southwest for the keynotes? Often hailed as “geek spring break,” South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) turns the city of Austin, Texas, into a sprawling bacchanalian hot mess — one with hook-ups aplenty, even for us geek types. A Different Kind of Awkward For The STD...
Samsung is the leading smartphone vendor in the world. In the U.S., however, Apple is still top dog — and its lead is growing. For the quarter ending January 2013, Apple held a 38% share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, according to ComScore’s latest U.S. smartphone market share data. Samsung placed a distant second, with a 21% share....
Path launched its third version on Wednesday, and this time, it’s all about the messages — and the stickers. In the new version, Path messages take advantage of the fact that as our phones have become capable of much more than transmitting voice and text, traditional SMS has become fairly outmoded. People are looking...