Just a week into Tumblr’s grand money-making scheme, the company’s head of brand strategy has packed his bags and hit the road.
Matt Hackett, who was the trendy blogging platform’s head of brand strategy and marketing since September 2011, announced …
In a blow to Uncle Sam, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship ahead of the company’s hotly anticipated initial public offering.
Facebook is expected to make its public stock market debut on May 18. The company priced …
Smoking-hot mobile video-sharing startup Viddy has closed a $30 million financing round and is fast-approaching 30 million registered users.
If you’ve taken a two-month hiatus from the Internet, then you’ve most certainly missed Viddy’s overnight comeuppance. The one-year-old company makes …
Twitter has snatched up the talent behind social marketing automation company RestEngine.
“We’re very excited to announce that the RestEngine team is joining the Twitter flock! Just over two-and-a-half years ago we founded RestEngine to help social app publishers send …
Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk rides in style in more ways than one. Today, the celebrity became the first person in San Diego to commission and enjoy an Uber ride.
On-demand car service startup Uber formally soft-launched in San Diego with …
Groupon made its Groupon Rewards loyalty program available to all U.S. businesses today in an effort to counter claims that its deals are bad for business.
Groupon Rewards is the deal provider’s mostly-automated alternative to the store punchcard. Merchants offer …
Just days into Facebook’s investor roadshow and a little over a week before its rumored market debut, the social network has amended its prospectus to warn potential investors that mobile is an even bigger risk than originally disclosed.
In amendment …
Channeling the design aesthetic of today’s hit mobile app makers, Google has released a bold, new version of its Google+ iPhone application that’s a beauty to behold.
“We’re embracing the sensor-rich smartphone (with its touchable screen and high-density display), and …
Five weeks after arriving on Android, Instagram has finally given app users on its second platform access to one of the application’s most compelling features: Tilt-Shift.
Instagram for Android was updated Tuesday night with the Tilt-Shift effect, which fakes a …
The masses can now travel in first-class style without dropping cash on a first-class airplane ticket, but only if they’re influential.
Influence-scoring startup Klout has partnered with Cathay Pacific Airways to provide members with stellar social-reputation access to the airline’s …
Pushing forward the elevated idea of Instagram photographers as modern day artists, a startup called Instacanvas officially launches Tuesday to give IG photogs online galleries where they can display and sell their filtered square captures as art.
On Instacanvsas, amateur …
Other than the dedication of its founding team, few things have remained consistent at the click-to-discover, reborn startup StumbleUpon during its tumultuous, 10-year history. But, as frequent change has yet to kill the company, perhaps it can withstand the exit …
Another day, another improvement for Google+, the circle social network from Google — except today’s Google+ update might actually have you spending less time on the social site.
Starting Tuesday, Google+ is getting more fully integrated with Gmail, meaning that …
Caught in the middle of political hot-potato case, The People of the State of New York versus Malcolm Harris, Twitter has gone to bat for one of its users.
In a move applauded by the American Civil Liberties Union, the …
Recognizing that expenses are travel and often inextricably linked, expense-tracking startup Expensify has released a new trips feature that automatically cobbles together helpful travel itineraries from your various receipts.
Expensify Trips, making its debut in the company’s iPhone, Android, Windows …
What started as a quirky loyalty program at one Chicago comic hideaway has spread to 1,400 locations in nine months, and can now count on the loyalty of one of Silicon Valley’s hottest venture capital firms.
Belly, a digital loyalty …
Save the rumors and speculation for another day, folks. Today, Facebook formally kicked off the the all-important roadshow leg of its initial public offering preparations with an investor meeting held in New York.
Last Thursday, May 3, the social network …
Holding steady with 35 million users, four-year-old TwitPic today forges ahead on Twitter photo-sharing with the release of its first mobile application.
TwitPic for iPhone, released Monday, gives Twitter users a way to quickly post photos and videos, see the …
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Color me crazy, but serial entrepreneur and quixotic Silicon Valley character Bill Nguyen could be on to something big. A partnership announced today between his flagging startup Color and prominent wireless carrier Verizon is, at the very least, no small …
In an effort to eradicate some of the challenges associated with text-based communication, Facebook has today updated the iOS and Android versions of Messenger, the social network’s cross-platform messaging-only app.
Version 1.7 of Facebook Messenger for iPhone and Android, out …
