Your Klout score can now get you a free one-day pass or even a year’s membership to the Admirals Club, as well as other VIP treatments, at the airport. A new partnership between Klout and American Airlines was just announced this week that enables people with a Klout score of 55+ access to a list [...]
Facebook just unveiled the new appearance of its News Feed during a live session in Menlo Park, California. “Today we’re announcing a new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about. You see all the stories you saw in your News Feed before, but with [...]
Written on 07 March 2013 by Vincent AbryFacebook has already faced many troubles in the past concerning issues on privacy, and now that Graph Search is set to be launched for the bigger Facebook population, it’s possible not everyone is jumping up and down with excitement. This is because Graph Search can potentially be more invasive than any other feature introduced by [...]
Hashtags, which started in Twitter but are now applicable across other social networks such as Facebook, is characterized by the (#) sign and is used primarily to categorize and narrow down social media marketing messages. Once employed the right way, hashtags are great way to involve your followers, talk about an upcoming event, and promote [...]
Small business owners may have to start small, but a few social media marketing tricks can result in a massive following for their respective brands. According to an article posted by Mashable on American Express Open Forum, there are three strategies in social media marketing that really stand out. In fact, many of the top-name [...]
Facebook is one of the most ubiquitous social networks around, along with Twitter, and at some point it’s going to encroach into other people’s emotions and leave either a positive or a negative impact. The influence of the social network is so pervasive that, according to Mashable, Facebook has the ability to make people feel [...]
Google+ has finally realized that, in the world of social networking, people love the familiar. So, yesterday an announcement was made by Google+’s Sean Purcell that the “Circles” icon will be replaced with the “Find People” tab. However, “Circles” is not really going away for good. Although this has been renamed to “Your circles”, it [...]
It’s a pretty common occurrence for people to leave Facebook for a time, but one father succeeded in convincing his teen daughter to quit the social network for a cash reward of $200. The father, Paul Baier who, according to his blog is VP Sustainability Consulting and Research at Groom Energy Solutions in Boston, published [...]
After LinkedIn surprised everyone – WallStreet especially – with their fourth-quarter figures that included $303.6 million in revenue and $11.5 million in net income, CEO Jeff Weiner has revealed to investors that LinkedIn’s core plans for 2013 will be on content marketing. In a news and analysis report published over at Cnet.com, LinkedIn made significant [...]
After buying out TweetDeck in May 2011 for roughly $40 million, Twitter has now acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics service provider, for an undisclosed price. According to BusinessInsider.com sources, this recent acquisition is the most expensive made by Twitter to date. Acquisition price assumptions are anywhere between $50 million and $100 million considering [...]
Facebook has disclosed their financial results for Q4 2012 and the numbers are pretty impressive. Q4 2012 revenue is at $1.585 billion, signifying a 40% growth from the previous year of the same quarter, which recorded revenue of $1.13 billion. In a statement accompanying the financial results Mark Zuckerberg reiterated Facebook’s evolution into a mobile [...]
Move over Facebook and Google+. The latest research findings by Global Web Index has crowned Twitter as the fastest-growing social platform in the world for Q4 2012, having experienced a whopping 714% growth in its number of active users since 2009. Global Web Index, a market-research firm specializing in social media and Web trends, made [...]
Many entrepreneurs on Facebook who have heard about the social network’s most recent functionality, Graph Search Engine, are most likely to ask this question: What’s in it for me and my business? If you ask Facebook, you’d most likely get the assurance that Graph Search will prove valuable in allowing more people to discover more [...]
Linkedin hit the 200 million milestone one week ago. The professional networking website has a presence in 200 countries and its site is available in 19 languages. Countries that have the most members are United States (74 million), India (18 M), United Kingdom and Brazil (11 M each) and Canada with 7 Million. Fastest growing [...]
Not everyone is chummy with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Social Network, so if you have something urgent to tell him and you feel that it is worth any expense, then you might try shelling out $100 just so your message won’t go into that little-known Other Inbox and get ignored. Anyone who is [...]
In an attempt to challenge Facebook, Google is requiring everyone to be on Google+, The Wall Street Journal Online reports. It may not be apparent to users yet, but creating a mere Gmail account or an account for downloading YouTube videos will automatically give them a public account on Google+. The fact that Google+ has [...]
Here are some recent numbers about Twitter. The social network has now 1 billion accounts (including spam and fake ones) according to Twopcharts. Since December 18, 2012, Twitter has 200 million active accounts (there were 100 million in September 2011) 400 million tweets are posted each day 1.6 billion searches are conducted every day Twitter receives [...]
Written on 05 Jan 2013 by Vincent AbryPinterest 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 [...]
With almost everyone on Facebook, businesses and organizations rely on the social network in the circulation of their marketing efforts. And one of the most convenient ways to secure potential customers’ attention is to use an attractive image with text overlays for marketing purposes. However, Facebook has very recently posed a few restrictions in the [...]
Days after it was revealed by New York Times sources how Twitter first offered $525 million to Instagram before the latter was snatched up by Facebook for a 1 billion deal, the microblogging site has recently reshuffled its executive ranks, naming a new CFO and COO. Former chief financial officer Ali Rowghani is now the [...]
