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50% Of Ecommerce Site Visitors Are Logged In To Facebook - 25 novembre 2011
Ecommerce sites should consider how they can personalize their sites using Facebook data, as a new study shows 50% of visitors to ecommerce sites are currently logged in to Facebook. Using Facebook social plugins and Connect integrations, sites can leverage Facebook data to show visitors what friends bought or (...)
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Nokia Shuts Down Developer Forum After Hacker Accesses Member Records - 29 août 2011
Nokia has temporarily shut down its developer community website as a precaution, after a hacker gained access to a database table containing forum members’ email addresses and other information. The hacker last week exploited a vulnerability in the bulletin board software that allowed an SQL Injection attack that (...)
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Foursquare To Power INQ Mobile’s Location Based Services - 23 mai 2011
INQ, one of the first partners to add the Facebook social layer to its Cloud Touch phone has announced today via Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley at TechCrunch that it will be using the Foursquare location layer to visualize location content for its users.
The Foursquare INQ phone will have all of the requisite (...)
The Cloud Has Us All In A Fog - 1er mai 2011
Ever heard of Dropship ? It’s an open-source project that "enables arbitrary, anonymous transfers of files between Dropbox accounts." Dropbox hopes you haven’t ; they tried to squelch it this week, and even accidentally reported that it was subject to a DMCA takedown notice, with predictably futile results. I’m (...)
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PlaceIQ’s Location-Aware Advertising Can Target You Block By Block - 25 avril 2011
It used to be that all a marketer needed to know was your zipcode, and they could infer your income range and a whole host of other demographic data about you. But with everyone now using mobile phones that can be targeted down to exact GPS coordinates at different times of the day, areas bounded by zipcodes seem (...)
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Apple Is Tracking You To Build Something Very Valuable : Its Location Database - 22 avril 2011
Your iPhone tracks you everywhere you go, and so do most phones these days. You knew that already. The reason this is a big story now is because it turns out that for the past 10 months Apple has been keeping your location data on a file in your iPhone itself where someone who knows how to get it, and has (...)
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IAC Asks For More Google, Please - 11 avril 2011
IAC has had an agreement with Google for some time now to hand over all search advertising on Ask.com and other IAC sites to the search giant. In 2007, IAC extended the deal, which was worth $3.5 billion at the time, to end in 2012. According to a release issued this morning, IAC and Google has renewed and (...)
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Google Renews Battle Over Facebook Contacts, Removes Phone Directory Sync On Nexus S - 25 février 2011
As part of today’s roll-out of Gingerbread updates to the Nexus One and Nexus S, Google also took an aggressive jab at Facebook : it has removed the ability of Facebook users to merge their "˜Facebook phone directory’ with the Contacts application on the Nexus S. In doing so Google has rekindled the battle over (...)
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HP Acquires Data Management And Real-Time Analytics Company Vertica - 15 février 2011
HP has just announced that it has acquired data management company Vertica. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011, were not disclosed.
Vertica, which has raised $30.5 million in funding, develops data management solutions for storing and querying databases. Its products (...)
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Twitter App Store Oneforty Refocuses On Helping Business Users Manage "˜Social’ - 12 février 2011
When Oneforty launched two years ago as an app store for Twitter, the startup undoubtedly filled a hole in the media platform. The brainchild of Laura Fitton, the startup provides a comprehensive e-commerce marketplace where third-party developers on the Twitter platform can sell their apps. The idea was such a (...)
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Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team, Organizational Changes - 11 février 2011
Ahead of its Strategy and Financial Briefing in London, Nokia has shared some details on what it plans to announce at the event. As expected, the company is aligning its strategy with Microsoft.
By now, you’ve probably seen the "˜burning platform’ memo penned by the fresh CEO of the world’s largest mobile phone (...)
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DLD11 : Foursquare And Groupon CEOs On Cracking The Local Commerce Nut - 24 janvier 2011
These are my notes from a panel on "˜Local Markets’ at the DLD Conference in Germany, which featured Groupon CEO Andrew Mason and Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley.
Q : Two very exciting startups on stage. Dennis and Andrew, what year did you start ?
Dennis : March 2009.
Andrew : November 2008.
Q : In my mind, the (...)
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Foursquare Now Six Million Users Strong, Hit 381M Total Check-Ins In 2010 - 24 janvier 2011
Foursquare has just announced some staggering growth stats via an infographic today. The company said that it has now hit 6 million registered users, grew 3400 percent in terms of check-ins and saw a total of 381,576,305 check-ins in 2010.
And it only took the location based social network a month and a half to (...)
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The Rise Of Facebook’s Valuation From 2004-2011 [Graphic] - 11 janvier 2011
The panic at absurd rumors of Facebook’s demise over the weekend, coupled with the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment frenzy at the beginning of this year got us thinking ; Did initial Facebook investor Peter Thiel, who invested 500K early on and still thought Facebook was undervalued at $30 billion back in (...)
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Report : Facebook Revenue Was $777 Million In 2009, Net Income $200 Million - 6 janvier 2011
DST and Goldman Sachs’ $500 million investment in Facebook has obviously stirred up the tech and financial journalism pot and all sorts of amazing information is now coming to light regarding the social network’s financials. On this note the WSJ is reporting that Goldman is now offering potential investors a (...)
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Twitter’s Golden Egg : Location - 5 janvier 2011
When "New Twitter" launched in 2010, the rollout was accompanied by a playful video demo of the new platform, where users could view threaded conversations and see multimedia within the web page itself. New Twitter presented an interface that allowed users to stay on the native site (www.twitter.com) rather than (...)
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Facebook Launches Instant Personalization On TripAdvisor - 22 décembre 2010
Hot on the heels of bringing Instant Personalization to Clicker last week, today Facebook is announcing the latest addition to the program : TripAdvisor. The popular travel site, which includes user reviews of hotels, restaurants, and other venues along with tools for booking a trip, will use your Facebook data to (...)
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Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store - 21 décembre 2010
Looks like an unofficial iPhone and iPad app that let you view WikiLeaks site content and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account on the go has been removed from the App app store earlier today. The app used to be available here (here’s the Google cache).
From the WikiLeaks App’s description :
"The Wikileaks app (...)
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Social Networking : The Future - 5 décembre 2010
Editor’s note : This is the third of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on "Social Networking : The Past, Present, And Future." Read Part I and Part II first. This series is an adaptaion of a recent talk Suster gave at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on "the future of (...)
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The Address Book Wars Continue : Facebook Contact-Scraping Chrome Extension Taken Down - 26 novembre 2010
This is just getting silly. Yesterday, we reported on a new Chrome extension created by a developer that allowed you to scrape your Facebook contact information. Called "Facebook Doesn’t Own My Friends," the extension provided a workaround to import your friends contact information on Facebook into Gmail and CSV (...)
