Through the evolution of local search, one thing Yelp, Facebook, Foursquare and others share is investor pressure to develop the undermonetized place where users are quickly migrating: mobile. For that reason, Yelp should soon build, partner or buy...
Many platforms don't begin tracking content until users have identified the content and asked for it to be tracked by entering it into the database themselves. This is why users are able to access historical data and competitive intelligence as...
LinkedIn buys Pulse for $90M as its publishing ambitions take shape – VentureBeatPulse, a news reader app, has 30 million users and aggregates updates from social networks and 750 news publications. Report: 46% Of Social Login Users Still Choose...
The Facebook phone has arrived, or will arrive on April 12, giving the social network giant a new window into its users' mobile habits and a more consistent, always-on connection for members of the Facebook community.
Also, Google was fined $22.5 million last year by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for tracking Safari browser users. During her 10 years at Google, Alma has done so much to improve our products and protect our users," a Google spokesperson said.
The site already has some 300 million users. Google has announced the ability for companies to offer their users a single point of access to their application, much like Facebook's Connect feature. Developers building apps for Android, iOS, or the...
Organically, the users determine whether a video is successful based on the view count, interaction and the number of different sites where the video has been embedded. Can an insurance company use crowdsourcing to take a function typically...
This allows Glimpse to analyze activity surrounding specific products and make social recommendations to users of the app. Facebook began rolling out a conversion measurement tool on Friday to help marketers bridge the data gap between social ads...
LinkedIn is still reigning as the world’s largest professional network with more than 175 million active users, which makes it the perfect platform for taking your business social. You wouldn't approach a table full of professionals you don’t know...
It’s a refreshing service for an increasing number of users, who find personalization based on search history and social media limiting, or even invasive. He created DontTrack.us to educate users about search personalization and the myriad ways...
Taobao, similar to eBay and Amazon, is one of the largest online marketplaces in the world and the largest marketplace in China with over 370 million users and more then 800 million product listings. There are many different answers to this...
In less than three years, Sina Weibo already boasts more than 300 million registered users, while Twitter took five years to reach the same number. Baidu Talk gained more than a million registered users when it launched in September 2010 but the...
Surprising to some, we’ve also watched a social networking site grow from 100 million users to a publicly traded company with almost 900 million active users. When signing up for the Olympic Hub site for example, users are able to sign in using...
The trick might be in Tracky, a new social collaboration platform that gives users the power to connect, collaborate and get it all done, whether it is a project for work or play. Recruiting: Companies looking for a search marketer or PPC...
Looking at some of the so-called 'FriendRank' patents from Google, they talk about categorizing elements of users within the social graph into; It makes more sense to look at the users (entities) in the social graph instead of the actual sites...
This allows Glimpse to analyze activity surrounding specific products and make social recommendations to users of the app. At Glimpse, a new social shopping app by TheFind.com, they see things differently – and that’s the key to the next generation...
Users based in China will also be able to use Baidu’s ting platform to click play to listen to the song or download for free. The idea behind Baidu’s box computing is to deliver directly into search results whatever users enter into the (search) box.
With more than 500 million Internet users, China is by far the world’s largest online market. Their largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, has more than 407 million users, with around 78 percent share of the total Chinese search users.
Users are free to use the search engine they choose, with the added benefits of Volunia. If Volunia doesn’t plan to beat out Google in size, what do they offer to entice users to make the switch to this new method of search?
With more than 15 million users and 500 million photos uploaded since launch, Instagram shows no sign of slowing down. Brands use their social properties to let users know that they will be asking for photos around a certain topic (example: #winter).
