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A few days after Klout unveiled a new content-sharing service to burnish its fading brand, one report says the company is about to sell itself to another social media company, L... 
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Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The deal, which was 70 percent stock and 30 percent cash the company said, will be completed during the first quarter of this year.
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Facebook today launched new features to help marketers reach people across devices and encourage them to take action. Custom Audiences now allows businesses to deliver targeted messages ...
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Impermium, a cybersecurity startup that was backed by top funds like Accel and Greylock, is joining Google. They had raised $9 million in funding from..
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Google’s purchase of smart-thermostat maker Nest makes a lot of sense, and could help it compete against Apple.
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Facebook today acquired NYC-based social startup Branch Media. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but The Verge pegged the deal at $15 million. The 10-person team won't ...
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A class-action suit claims that the social networking site monitors and uses your messages for advertising purposes.
The class-action lawsuit, submitted by Arkansas lawyer Matt Campbell and Michael Hurley from Oregon on Monday at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, says that the social networking giant monitors users' private messages in order to compile and mine data which can be used to profile web activity.
===> This data can then allegedly be used for profit through sales to marketers and advertisers -- who then can target ads based on the user's online behavior. <===
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Technology that derives personality traits from Twitter updates is being tested to help target promotions and personalize customer service.
Oscar Melendez's curator insight,
December 22, 2013 11:45 AM
Great what type of products will marketers try to sell you if your psycho-analysis tell them you're crazy.
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Security researcher Egor Homakov has discovered a Twitter vulnerability which allows apps to send DMs without requiring explicit user permission. TNW has verified the findings and can ...
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Twitter has announced that it is now introducing a new type of ads that is based on web-surfing activity, much in the way Google or Facebook do, for i...
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![The Must-Have Guide To Twitter Manners [Infographic] | Social Media and its influence | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/lSKgx5hyc6DMOVoCmuyM1Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
In an effort to keep your Twitter manners properly set up and to make sure you know which part of Twitter is useful for a particular type of question or conversation, check out this visual guide.
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The microblogging site adds a new security measure designed to make it harder for organizations like the National Security Agency to uncover its data. Read this article by Donna Tam on CNET News.
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Facebook aurait reçu des autorités européennes 8 500 demandes d'informations utilisateurs au premier semestre 2013, dont 1 500 effectuées par la France.
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Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable, gearing up to announce its earnings any minute now, also has some other news: the company has acquired Ness.. Restaurant reservation platform OpenTabletoday reported quarterly earnings of $52.3 million and used the day to put out some other news: the company has acquiredNess Computing, makers of the personalized restaurant recommendations app Ness. It’s an all-cash transaction that OpenTable says is worth $17.3 million, although it comes with cash in Ness’s coffers that brings the net value to $11.3 million.
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In 2012 Twitter launched a new expanded tweet experience when they introduced Twitter Cards. These cards allow approved publishers to display more information than just the 140 characters—headlines, article summaries, images and much more can appear in a single tweet when an expansion link is clicked. Twitter has now rolled [...]
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It's been rumored for more than a year and Facebook has finally introduced a news reader app that will rival Flipboard: it's called Paper. The iOS mobile app displays stories around ...
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Google's acquisition of Nest could be the most important development to ever happen in the nascent field of the Internet of Things. Here's why.
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Google annonce avoir effectué le rachat de la société Nest Labs, spécialisée dans la mise en place de systèmes domotiques.
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Zwei US-Amerikaner klagen derzeit gegen Facebook und werfen dem sozialen Netzwerk vor, Privatnachrichten für Werbezwecke mitgelesen zu haben.
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Robert Scoble, Nerd, Blogger und selbst ernannter Google-Glass-Kenner war einer der ersten Menschen weltweit, die einen Prototyp von Google Glass in die Finger bekamen. Sein Fazit: Schick, aber ein Misserfolg.
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Facebook has announced the acquisition of SportStream, a startup focused on tracking and surfacing sports-related social content, news and statistics, as noted by AllThingsD.
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Spotify announced on Wednesday that it is expanding its free streaming option to all devices.
Spotify Free for tablets will also work in conjunction with Spotify Connect, the company's Chromecast-like integration for home stereo systems. Previously, non-paying Spotify users could only listen to Spotify Radio selections on mobile. Like Pandora, iTunes Radio andiHeartRadio, Spotify Radio allows users to listen to "stations" comprised of artists and genres, but not specific music tracks.
The new option will allow users to listen to tracks they select, just as they can on the desktop.
In addition to Spotify Free for tablets, the company is also rolling out a free streaming option for all devices, including mobile phones. This option, dubbed "Spotify Shuffle," the option will allow users to "shuffle play" all playlists in their libraries and shuffle listen to any artist they choose.
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Listen also to my MIX Playlist:
- https://play.spotify.com/user/webizard/playlist/67gBvDrCayFU4QRcKKOcEP
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February 16, 2014 10:17 PM
Spotify is quickly growing in the market share. By expanding it's services into new devices for free, will definitely increase its popularity.
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Don't want the entire Facebook-using and -abusing population to see your friends list? You could set your friend list to private, but fat lot of good that will do, given a researcher's discovery th...
Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
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Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
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Using the power of Social Media, I FREAKED PEOPLE OUT by making them think I knew personal information about them! Join the Vale Nation► http://bit.ly/JoinVa...
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Cindy Rogers's curator insight,
November 20, 2013 4:22 AM
How much are you unwittingly sharing about yourself? 
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December 3, 2014 11:07 AM
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