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Millennial Media : Android OS Grew By 47 Percent In July, iPad Requests Up 327 Percent - 18 août 2010
Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its monthly mobile mix report today. According to Nielsen, Millennial’s ads reach 63 million of a total of 77 million mobile web users in the U.S., or 81% of the U.S. mobile web. In July, Android OS grew at a faster clip than in June, with requests increasing by 47 (...)
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Eric Schmidt’s Name Game Doesn’t Make Sense - 18 août 2010
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt that covered a range of topics including Google’s future, newspapers, and privacy. The article contains some choice quotes about the future of search (there’s a somewhat ominous bit about Google knowing about your (...)
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CloudCrowd Raises $5.1 Million To Outsource Labor To The Cloud - 13 août 2010
Labor as a service startup CloudCrowd has just raised $5.1 million in funding, according to an recent SEC filing. We’ve confirmed the funding with the startup, which had previously raised $1.5 million in seed funding. This recent round of funding was led by DFJ with and the startup’s co-founder and CEO Alex (...)
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Another Piece To Google’s Social Puzzle : To Acquire Jambool For $70 Million - 11 août 2010
Google continues to gobble up companies that will form the backbone of its new social strategy and the upcoming war with Facebook. Last week it was Slide. And they are now buying Jambool and their Social Gold payment product, we’ve heard from multiple sources. The purchase price is $55 million plus another $15 (...)
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In April, Apple Ditched Google And Skyhook In Favor Of Its Own Location Databases - 30 juillet 2010
As you’re undoubtedly aware, location is one of the hottest fields out there right now. Startups, services, devices, and advertisers are all hovering around it. As you’re also likely well aware, Apple likes to be in control of their own devices. So it should come as no surprise to hear that Apple is moving to be in (...)
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Google Secretly Invested $100+ Million In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games - 15 juillet 2010
Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone, including $150 million from Softbank (...)
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Judge Throws Out Viacom Case Against YouTube (Court Document) - 25 juin 2010
The long-standing, $1 billion copyright infringement case against YouTube by Viacom is now pretty much over. The judge incredibly threw out the case in a summary judgement (his final order is embedded below) and YouTube has declared victory. Viacom first filed its lawsuit in 2007. And plenty of juicy tidbits have (...)
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Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats - 5 mai 2010
You’ve got to hand it to Facebook. They certainly know how to do security "” not.
Today I was tipped off that there is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks, enables any user to view the live chats of their "˜friends’. Using what sounds like a simple trick, a user can (...)
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Facebook’s Plan To Automatically Share Your Data With Sites You Never Signed Up For - 27 mars 2010
In anticipation of a slew of new features that will be launching at f8, today Facebook announced that it was once again making changes to its privacy policy (you can see our post outlining these changes here). One of the biggest changes that Facebook is making involves applications and third-party websites. We’ve (...)
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Google’s sudden music blog purge and its implications - 12 février 2010
Yesterday, in response to allegations of DMCA violations, several popular music blogs were wiped off the face of the net. They were hosted by Google via Blogger, and it was only after they were completely erased that the owners received emails to the effect of "We got one too many complaints "” you’re deleted. Love, (...)
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Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International - 27 janvier 2010
This looks really, really bad. An avid Facebook user named Harman Bajwa says that his Facebook vanity Url "“ Facebook.com/Harman "“ was unceremoniously revoked yesterday for violating Facebook’s policies. His new Facebook URL is the much less memorable facebook.com/profile.php ?id=538612932.
Facebook then apparently (...)
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What Happened To bit.ly’s Market Share ? - 7 janvier 2010
It seems like everyone and their mother now has their own URL shortening service, or at least their own short domain. Short URLs have almost become a branding thing. But as the use of short links keeps going up, the market share among different URL shortening services is fragmenting. The biggest URL shortening (...)
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Twitter Hack : Part Of Broader Iranian Strategy - 21 décembre 2009
Late last night the popular micro-messaging service Twitter was attacked and had its website defaced by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army. The Twitter homepage and the main application service page were replaced with a bold pro-Iranian and anti-American message. The message was loud, and very clear "“ (...)
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How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro : An Insider’s Confession - 7 novembre 2009
How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro : An Insider’s Confession
Last night we wrote about the lead generation scams within social gaming networks. This is a guest post by Dennis Yu, the CEO of BlitzLocal, a privately held 50 person advertising agency in Denver, Colorado, specializing in local search engine marketing for (...)
