The Associated Press starts selling access to its Twitter feed; Samsung is first customer

The Associated Press is running a sponsored tweets campaign. But the news company is not paying Twitter any money, and the sponsored tweets are not the kind of sponsored tweets that we're used to.

Infusionsoft gets $54M to help small businesses compete with heavyweights

Infusionsoft raises a whopping $54 million for its custom, all-in-one sales and marketing automation software.

The Prez is king: Obama named ‘most influential social media person’ of 2012

Perhaps it was the most re-tweeted tweet in history. Or the photo with the most Facebook likes ever. Most likely, it's a history of consistently engaging via social media.

Report: User acquisition costs for iOS shot up 30% last month

The cost of acquiring loyal users for iPhone and iPad apps shot up by almost a third last month as marketers started the big Christmas season push.

Study: Almost 50% of top Pinterest pins link to webpages that don’t exist

48 percent of the most popular pins on Pinterest lead to expired pages on top retailers brands, according to a new study by Curalate, the social curation company.

Oracle buys cloud marketing firm Eloqua for $871M

Oracle's quest to offer cloud services for just about everything continues.

Facebook announces new ‘Preferred Marketing Developer’ center

Want to market your company or yourself on Facebook? Now it's easy to find a reputable company that won't get you banned from the most popular social network on the planet.

President of the Free Software Foundation unleashes Old Testament wrath on Ubuntu Linux “spyware”

Richard Stallman, the grand old man of open source software and president of the Free Software Foundation, is calling Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux “spyware” and calling on the open source community to uninstall the software, shun the company, and “give Canonical whatever rebuff is needed to make it stop.”

Mobile developers: This is how you get 500,000 installs in one day

In 2008 a French engineer in Silicon Valley started a newsletter about a fascinating new slice of the technology market: mobile apps. Today, his company regularly drives 250,000 downloads for featured apps ... and sometimes more than 500,000.

Apple’s bringing some manufacturing back to the U.S. But is it just a stunt?

Apple is spending $100 million bringing some Mac manufacturing back to the U.S. That sounds like good news to those who are worried about the decline of U.S. manufacturing. But not to all.

Forrester on mobile marketing: who you do — and do not — want to target

Forrester released a new report today on mobile marketing. As it turns out, there's only one group of mobile customers that marketers want to target. Big shocker: It's not the 7 percent of American adults who still refuse to use a mobile phone.

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.

ThingLink: This is how brands are driving 100% more Twitter engagement

Imagine you could post a tweet which your followers view, engage with, watch video in, listen to audio in, and get detailed information about five or six related details ... all without leaving Twitter.