Arkansas’ Collective Bias storms marketing scene with army of 1,400 influencers, $10.5M

"Social shopper media company" Collective Bias has raised $10.5 million to expand its approach to brand marketing, which leverages an army of influencers to publish content on social media.

Google Alerts ‘broken,’ ‘useless,’ and slowed to a ‘trickle’

Reports are coming out that Google Alerts is not working as it used to and is no longer as useful a tool for brands, businesses, and marketers.

Pinterest debuts style makeover with fresh new look, tighter backend

Online scrapbooking site Pinterest unveils its new look, including enhanced navigational and discovery features.

Facebook: 15 million businesses, companies, and organizations now have a Facebook page

We've known for some time that Facebook has over a billion users. Now the company has announced that it has over 15 million brands, too.

Sprout Social launches #BePresent to give brands free social media checkups

How is your company doing in social? Are you engaging customers, fans, and potential customers? And are you doing it better than your competitors?

Super Bowl brand buzz: How GoDaddy both won and lost (infographic)

Super Bowl XLVII is in the books, and so is the $7.6 million brands spent for just 60 precious seconds of your time during the game. But who won?

Health startup raises $11M to offer coupons for caramels

Linkwell's platform connects insurance companies, brands, and consumers in a coupon distribution network.

Mommy blogger alert: Sverve launches to provide all 3.9M of you with a monetization platform

The vast majority of bloggers tend to write in the dark, toiling away in relative obscurity while a few grab the spotlight. That's true for the almost four million "mommy bloggers" in the U.S. as well.

Video game e-commerce: It’s about serving the fans

With Electronic Arts' new online stores comes a better commitment to its brands and customers.

Pinterest gets down to business by opening doors to brands

Pinterest officially opened its doors to businesses, welcoming them with a promise to help them get the most out of their digital pin-board experiences

Ex-Intel executive comes out as Qualcomm’s chief marketing officer — and now loves mobile devices even more

New Qualcomm marketing executive says the landscape for mobile changes fast.

OrderGroove moves subscription e-commerce from serial dating to monogomy

OrderGroove raises $6.7 million to help brands turn their fickle customers into committed partners.

Over half of the world’s top 100 brands now on Instagram

54 percent of the world's biggest 100 brands are now connecting with fans and customers on Instagram, and brand adoption on Instagram is growing faster than Google+ and Pinterest.

Update: Lithium Technologies issues $5.6M in shares to buy Social Dynamx

Lithium Technologies discloses $5.6 million, likely behind its recent acquisition of Social Dynamx.

Study: brands don’t listen, answering fewer than half of customer questions on Facebook (infographic)

Customer service is going social. Unfortunately, it's traveling on the slow boat to customer satisfaction.

Twitter’s new solution for measuring brand campaigns: in-tweet surveys

Twitter is testing the theory that advertisers want more than just campaign impression and click-through data to understand the value of paying to promote messages on the information network.

Vision Critical ‘very satisfied’ with $20M for its online customer surveys

Vision Critical took $20 million to build out its community panel platform which administers customer surveys and facilities two-way communication between organizations and consumers.