Today, half of U.S. mobile consumers own smartphones. But five years ago, before Apple and Google turned the smartphone world upside down and before “Angry Birds” were associated with feathery fowl dispensing poop from above, the world was a very …
TweetDeck is back online after a potentially disastrous bug gave a small number of Twitter users access to other members’ accounts.
“As soon as we learned about the issue today, we took TweetDeck down to diagnose the situation,” Twitter’s head …
In a fail whale moment of a different kind, TweetDeck was taken down Friday afternoon after a Twitterer claimed to have found a bug that gave him access to hundreds of accounts.
Twitter user Geoff Evason said he discovered the …
In a prelude to its Wall Street debut, Facebook received a $104 billion valuation from private investors in a secondary market auction.
The transaction, completed on secondary market SharesPost Friday afternoon, had a clearing price of $44.10 per share.
“SharesPost …
In two big twists, LivingSocial said so long to its “Instant” deals product and its co-founder on the same day.
The number-two deals service aborted its location-based Instant deals product and replaced it with a food takeout and delivery offering …
Private social network Path has publicly crossed international waters with its newest recruit, Shakil Khan, the former head of special projects at Spotify.
Khan, known affectionately in tech circles as “Shak,” has landed at Path with the same job title, …
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Seek and you shall find. That’s the promise of an improved Facebook search engine said to be in works at the world’s largest social network.
“Search, really functional and robust search, is sadly lacking within the Facebook interface,” Alitmeter Group …
Positing that data analysis on a grand scale can solve the nation’s most critical challenges, the Obama Administration has kicked off a big data initiative with $200 million in commitments from six federal agencies.
The White House Office of Science …
Brands interested in doing market research and publishers trying to make money on content have a new friend in Google, as the search giant is acting as go-between with a new tool that gives both audiences exactly what they want.…
Thirteen year-old do-it-yourself printing service CafePress has priced shares higher than anticipated at $19, an underwriter said on the eve of the company’s public debut.
CafePress, a San Mateo, Calif-based company best-known for its popular custom t-shirt printing business, will …
Facebook will officially start courting investors and kick off its IPO roadshow next week in a one-month run-up to a late-April offering, multiple sources close to the company have said.
This revelation comes from financial data analysis company PrivCo, which …
Google has wasted no time taking advantage of its newfound ability to pool consumer data across all products, thanks to controversial privacy policy changes, and is today releasing a not-so-scary utility for its users.
On Wednesday, Google announced the release …
Proving that not all people want to characterize online relationships in the friendliest of terms, a new Facebook application for listing your enemies is now working its way through the social network at breakneck pace.
EnemyGraph, first released last month, …
Facebook amended its prospectus Tuesday to update would-be IPO investors on the status of two highly publicized legal matters.
The company also added comScore data from January showing a 57 percent increase from 2011 in the aggregate minutes per day …
Hello, Pinterest? The President is calling.
Taking inspiration from the legions of web denizens (and potential voters) already hip to the pinning craze, U.S. President Barack Obama is now sharing his collection of favorite politically themed things and family recipes …
One iOS app maker is so confident in the righteousness of its data collection practices that it has responded to a congressional inquiry with an open letter detailing the types of user information it collects, transmits, and stores.
“In full …
A company that makes 96 percent of its revenue from advertising is becoming a massive media buyer itself — and in a far more traditional sense than one might at first anticipate.
In 2011, Google spent nearly $70 million on …
Adding a whole new meaning to the phrase “up close and personal,” Skype has released a version of its iPad application optimized for the device’s new ultra-high resolution Retina Display.
Skype’s 3.8 for iPad was released Monday and is specifically …
A few dozen Facebook employees have put their own massive mark, literally, on the social network’s expansive new Menlo Park campus.
The mark in question is a gargantuan, scannable QR code taking up 42 feet of rooftop space atop one …
Small is the new big thing on Twitter, as the company is, at long last, providing small businesses with a way to advertise on the social network.
Twitter is rolling out its self-serve advertising product to a select group of …
