Pinterest and senior investor Brian Cohen are at the receiving end of a law suit after lawyer and businessman Theodore Schroeder sued the website/company and Cohen due to alleged idea and technology theft, reports TheNextWeb. Several allegations outlined in the lawsuit include misappropriations, breach of fiduciary duty, promissory estoppels, and many others. Having worked with [...]
Pinterest has just made the site more relevant to businesses as it launched free tools, Pages and resources for business owners last week, according to an update published on its blog. As a result, the social sharing site is inviting everyone to check out their new sets of terms, one of which is geared for [...]
For the longest time, Pinterest made everything posted on a Pinterest board available for public viewing on the web. While this appeared not to work against Pinterest, users have been quite persistent in their requests for an option to pin privately. Now, the site has rolled out a fresh new feature that will allow users [...]
Pinterest, the sugar-spice-and-everything-nice social networking site that lets users “pin” their favorite photos, is set to raise a $100 million round of investment, mainly to further its plans of reaching broader global markets. Rakuten, the company that manages Japan’s no.1 shopping site, leads the investment at $50 million. This newest funding is seen to place [...]
Pinterest just raised $ 100 million from Rakuten, valuing the social network at $ 1.5 billion. Now let’s look specifically at the heart of Pinterest: its content. First you must know that this social network is mostly visited by women: between 68% and 87% depending on the sources. The favorite subjects of its users are [...]
Written on 17 May 2012 by Vincent AbryHere is exactly what you shouldn’t do when someone explained to you that Pinterest was a pinboard for sharing photos… Noooooooooo my screen!!! via
Written on 29 April 2012 by Vincent AbryPinterest is a social networking website that was launched in March of 2010 by Ben Silbermann. While this website is relatively new, it has seen a rapid increase in users and is currently the third most popular social media website in the world. In fact, only Facebook and Twitter are more widely used than Pinterest. [...]
Written on 24 April 2012 by Vincent AbryIf you have a e-commerce, may be you should be on Pinterest. According to Mashable, the food category is the fastest growing niche of Pinterest. [via]
Written on 20 March 2012 by Vincent AbryPinterest is on all lips since the last weeks, even if this social network exist since 2 years. Now comes the time of the markting guide to this social network. What you need to do if you are a brand or e-commerce : -target the right audience by using interests and categories -add a “Pin [...]
Written on 01 March 2012 by Vincent AbryHere are some stats and facts about Pinterest, the growing Social Network. Average annual household income is $100,000 +. Average Time Spent on Site is 15.8 minutes. In comparison, for Facebook it’s 12 minutes, Twitter 3.3 minutes. Only Youtube has similar time : 16.4 minutes. Half of Pinterest users have children. 68% of users are [...]
Written on 26 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryDid you know that Pinterest is already making money ? no? This is normal as this is almost invisible. No ads, no membership fees, nothing. But how then ? “If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to [...]
Written on 08 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryNew visual social network Pinterest is starting to change the face of social commerce, as reports Monetate, via mashable. “Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to retailers’ websites. The service enables users to create online bulletin [...]
Written on 30 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryPinterest, a strange name that our brain has some difficulty to read, was created in 2010. May be you never heard about it but in 2012 this social network with Images will definitely grab our attention. This new social and sharing tool is a mix of Delicious (bookmarks), Reddit (buzz) and Google +. It’s a [...]
Written on 10 Jan 2012 by Vincent Abry