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The mobile app industry is always rapidly changing. From mobile apps replacing our wallets, to how we turn on lights in our homes, app developers are constantly trying to find a new solution to a problem, and create an app that stands on its own in terms of innovation and creativity. However, many times, the mobile app … [Read more...]
Back in November 2015 I had the chance to visit Israel for the first time and see Tel Aviv and its startup ecosystem in person. I met with a number of startups and tech companies that are doing incredible things, some of which I have already written about, such as the startups at the Nautilus Accelerator as well as a … [Read more...]
It seems new and exciting changes are coming to the world of Twitter. While the company has been trying lots of different tactics to generate revenue from what is essentially a free-for-all in terms of what it costs and how it functions, Twitter will soon introduce the syndication of promoted Tweets across different … [Read more...]
The new, work-focused social networking experience from Facebook is launching today, TechCrunch reports. Accessible via the main Facebook site, but also packaged into an Android and iOS app called “Work,” the new service will be available as part of a limited roll out while Facebook tests everything out. According to the … [Read more...]
Facebook has been declared “the social network to end all social networks” by Shareaholic, a social media analytics and publishing firm. This past June Facebook reached an all time high with a 23.39% share of all visits to the 300,000 websites that Shareaholic networks. This means that roughly a quarter of the people who … [Read more...]
Boxes started out an idea to help people organize their stuff in a really sleek and easy-to-use to design. What it's turned out to be, however, is social network for collectors and fashionistas, plus a whole lot more. The iOS app, which officially launched last summer, allows you to catalogue all of your items in an … [Read more...]
The dust has settled on the Grand Facebook Emotion Experiment, in which the social network automatically filtered what 700,000 users saw on their newsfeeds for the span of a week in 2012 based on whether posts contained negatively or positively charged words to see if that affected those users’ posts. Since many users saw … [Read more...]
By now you’ve probably heard the news: Facebook has been messing with your mind. Over the weekend, Facebook was in the headlines when it was discovered that the social network had performed a bit of a social experiment on its users. For a week in early 2012, Facebook’s algorithms manipulated the news feeds of roughly … [Read more...]
Today, Amazon announced a new partnership with Twitter, allowing users to add items to their Amazon shopping carts by simply replying to certain tweets with the self-explanatory hashtag, #AmazonCart. It’s a new way to buy stuff, and it’s no surprise that it’s come from that hotbed of online retail innovation, … [Read more...]
You may not have heard of Skout but it's actually one of the oldest and largest mobile (iOS and Android) social networks. The company is in its eighth year of operation and has 220 million users in over 180 different countries. Skout focuses on helping connect people, allowing users to make new friends in their local area … [Read more...]
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