Facebook inserts video into mobile ads
CNET - (Credit: Facebook) Facebook hopes to make its mobile ads more enticing to viewing audiences and advertisers alike with an upgrade that lets developers run video ads in the News Feed on iOS and...
View ArticleApp developers get first crack at Facebook video ads
Macworld - Your News Feed will soon see mobile video ads prompting you to watch a demo, then download new apps.
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View ArticleHiyalife Release An iPhone App For Its Privacy-Aware Memories Platform
TechCrunch - Back in the day a few startups came along to bring the interface of a time-line to our memories. We're all familiar with the Facebook news-feed approach, though in fairness, timelines are...
View ArticleWhy Every Social Network Should Be Betting On In-Stream, Native Advertising
Business Insider - The native-social rush is on. BIA/Kelsey estimates that social ad spend will reach over $10 billion by 2017 and that up to 40% or more of those outlays will go to native ads. In the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Webscape: Tailoring your news feed
BBC News - Kate Russell reviews a site which selects news based on your social media accounts plus other sites and apps.
View ArticleHere's Why Native Advertising Will Rescue The Mobile Advertising Industry
Business Insider - A native ad is conceived for specific sites or apps and are a natural part of the experience. One example is the Facebook ads that show up in your news feed, another is the...
View ArticleTwitter's New Look: Pictures And Video Now Appear Automatically On Newsfeed
Huffington Post - Twitter has a new look - and it's probably really going to annoy a lot of people. The change means that pictures and image previews appear automatically on your news feed, in the same...
View ArticleFacebook contemplates tracking your every move
CNET - (Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove/CNET) Facebook is testing new Web and mobile tracking methods to better understand member behavior and determine things such as how long people hover over...
View ArticleFacebook earnings top expectations
San Francisco Chronicle - Facebook posted stronger-than-expected earnings Wednesday as advertising revenue grew 66 percent and the company continued to tap into the growing market of mobile users....
View ArticleAdvertising: It Slices, It Dices, It Looks Great in Your News Feed
New York Times - An online campaign for the kitchen appliance maker Bella encourages young people to use smartphones to post about it to social networks.   Â
View ArticleFacebook fizzle?
CNBC - Channing Smith, Capital Advisors Growth Fund, and Jordan Rohan, Stifel, discuss how fickle teenagers are impacting Facebook's shares. Ad inventory in news feed is a worry for investors, says Smith.
View ArticleAnalysts Are Pounding The Table Telling Investors To Buy Facebook Amid...
Business Insider - Facebook posted extremely healthy financial results yesterday. It's recently non-existent mobile ad business is huge, and accelerating. Then, during a conference call to discuss the...
View ArticleTwitter silent on when it'll turn a profit
San Francisco Chronicle - Investors are looking for sustainable business models after Internet companies such as Groupon saw their shares crater when they went public without profits. Groupon started...
View ArticleFacebook shares close at $50.21 after sales report
San Francisco Chronicle - The social networking service reported sales of $2.02 billion in the third quarter, beating analysts' estimates as marketers spent more on advertisements targeting smartphone...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Is Finally Updating Yahoo Finance, Though Today's Launch Has...
Business Insider - Yahoo planned to roll-out a redesigned version of Yahoo Finance this morning, but the launch has been delayed. The Wall Street Journal's Douglas MacMillan broke the news. MacMillan...
View ArticleYahoo updates iOS Finance app to make it more personal
CNET - The Yahoo Finance app now lets you track your favorite stocks. (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Yahoo has revamped its iOS Finance app to help you keep better track of your portfolio....
View ArticleNikki Finke out at Deadline Hollywood
Politico - Nikki Finke, the blogger whose name is synonymous with Hollywood scoops and gossip, has finally parted ways with Deadline.com after a year of feuding with the site's owner, Jay Penske. "Jay...
View ArticleTrending Now: Facebook plugs buzzy posts in News Feed
CNET - @jbruin - Facebook has moved "trending topics" from the sidebar to the news feed: pic.twitter.com/wde5HHFbbuâ Nicholas Zahn (@nzahn1) November 6, 2013 Facebook is showing some members stories...
View ArticleOpen pages in Chrome as panels with PIP Viewer extension
CNET - You can juggle multiple tabs in Chrome, and you can juggle multiple windows. With Chrome extension Picture in Picture Viewer, you gain a third option: the ability to open a Web page as a Chrome...
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