MASHABLE - Mar 19 - Cloak app uses location data to avoid accidentally bumping into people users don't want to see. For now, the app only pulls in location data from Foursquare and Instagram. by Karissa Bell See full article......
NY TIMES - Mar 18 - Secret is a new sharing app. Messages appear only as from “friend” or “friend of friend.” It has gained popularity among early adopters and particularly among the tech crowd. The company has recently raised......
IT WORLD - Mar 14 - WeChat, one of China's most popular messaging apps, closed the public accounts of several publications known for their political writings. Tencent, the Chinese Internet giant behind WeChat, said the account closures were made to......
CNET NEWS - Mar 17 - Twitter has been banned from China since 2009. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is heading to Shanghai on a tour of China. According to Twitter, Costolo is simply heading to China to "learn more about......
ETF DAILY NEWS - Mar 17 - Zynga still derived 69% of bookings and 75% of revenue from Facebook in 2013. It is down from 2012, when Zynga counted on FB for 81% of bookings and 86% of revenue. See......
MASHABLE - Mar 17 - WhatsApp, the messaging app that Facebook purchased for $16B, says it is not in the business of data collecting. Users feared that the acquisition meant WhatsApp would change its privacy policy or share data on......
REUTERS - Mar 18 - Mail.Ru bought a 12% stake in the country's biggest social network VKontakte, raising its holding to ~52%. by Maria Kiselyova See full article at Reuters See all posts on Mail.ru See all posts on VKontakte...
STREET INSIDER - Mar 14 - Weibo filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO of its American Depositary Shares (ADSs). The proposed maximum offering price is $500M. Weibo revenues increased from $66M in 2012......
TECH CRUNCH - Mar 15 - Doximity launched in early 2011 to give medical professionals a free, HIPAA-compliant alternative to LinkedIn. Today, Doximity serves doctors as not only a professional network, but a way to find relevant specialists for patients,......
MASHABLE - Mar 14 - Mark Zuckerberg expressed his frustrations about the way the U.S. government has handled Internet security in recent months. It's a sensitive issue for Facebook. Facebook came under fire last summer when reports surfaced that Internet......
WSJ - Mar 14 - Social-media startup Banjo has raised $16M in Series B funding to become something like a TiVo for interesting social-media conversations. Banjo gives users an easy way to view aggregated, relevant social-media conversations about breaking news......
BLOOMBERG - Mar 12 - Facebook is releasing its video-advertising product. The 15-second spots, which Facebook began testing in December, will be offered to select U.S. ad partners starting today. The promotions will be rolled out into users’ news feeds......
BBC.COM - Mar 12 - Teachers using social media sites should receive clearer guidance. The General Teaching Council for Wales (GTCW) said five out of 21 disciplinary cases last year involved teachers interacting with pupils on sites such as Facebook......
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK - Mar 12 - LinkedIn has announced its members in the UK have passed the 15M landmark. In 2010 there were just 2M UK employees registered on the website. LinkedIn has also launched a dedicated hub for students looking......
WSJ - Mar 11 - With a market cap now slightly above $150 billion, the Chinese social networking and gaming firm is already larger than U.S. tech giants like Intel, Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. Tencent’s shares are up ~25% since......
CNET NEWS - Mar 10 - Whisper, the anonymous confession app, closes its third round of funding in less than a year, giving it a $200M valuation. The new round totals ~$30M, which means the startup has raised ~$54M in......
RT.COM - Mar 10 - Twitter says they’ve fixed a bug that for the last four months allowed unauthorized users to see the protected tweets of ~100K customers. See full article at RT.com See all posts on Twitter...
CNET NEWS - Mar 7 - Omnicon Group, a top-tier advertising and marketing agency, has signed a one-year contract with Instagram. The partnership marks the first agency deal for Instagram. Omnicom would spend ~$100M on Instagram ads for its clients......
CNET NEWS - Mar 7 - Twitter paid $36M to acquire ~900 patents from IBM. IBM announced the agreement between the companies in January. Last year, IBM was banging the drums of possible patent-infringement against Twitter, saying that the company's......
USA TODAY - Mar 8 - "Facebook is transformed from a public space to a behavioral laboratory," says social psychologist Ilka Gleibs, an assistant professor at the London School of Economics in London and the author of a study about......