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Twitter to make “big” announcement on Good Morning America tomorrow

, Apr 17th 2013 Discuss [1]

Leave it to Twitter to make announcements in a way that is, shall we say, atypical in nature. Good Morning America just sent out a tweet stating that Twitter will be making a "BIG" announcement tomorrow morning on the show. Twitter hasn't made any announcement on its own account, and while we have no idea what they're going to announce, there are a couple of possibilities. Read The Full Story

Facebook reportedly hires former Apple manager Richard Williamson

, Apr 16th 2013 Discuss [1]

Back in November, word surfaced that Apple's Richard Williamson was given the boot as part of a change in the Maps team. Now sources have again talked to Bloomberg, this time saying that Facebook has hired him as a manager with its mobile software group. The alleged hiring is said to have happened sometime in the "past couple of weeks." The info comes from two sources who are said to be familiar with the dealings. Read The Full Story

Twitter reportedly in talks with Viacom and NBC over content partnerships

, Apr 16th 2013 Discuss [1]

The folks at Bloomberg chatted with two sources said to be involved in some private talks that Twitter is undergoing with Viacom and NBCUniversal about offering their content on the microblogging service. The sources, who won't named, said that discussions with Viacom concern displaying TV show clips and ads, but the subject of its talks with NBCUniversal weren't specified. Read The Full Story

Twitter to launch music app this weekend, says sources

, Apr 12th 2013 Discuss [2]

In the latest Twitter news story to surface today, sources have told the folks over at AllThingsD that the rumored Twitter music app we've been hearing about will be launched this Friday, with another stating that it will be launched at Coachella some time this weekend. This follows an announcement on Thursday by We Are Hunted that it was acquired by the microblogging service. Read The Full Story

Twitter Trends rolled out in more than 160 new locations

, Apr 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Twitter, which publicly revealed its acquisition of We Are Hunted music service earlier this evening and is rumored to be working on a music app, has expanded its Trends locations to more than 160 additional cities, offering it in locations that have never before had access and expanding it in countries that have already seen it. Read The Full Story

Twitter’s acquisition of We Are Hunted officially announced

, Apr 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Word has had it for a while now that Twitter acquired music service We Are Hunted, which it is using as part of its rumored music app that we'd like to see an official announcement about some time soon. That acquisition was just made public by We Are Hunted, which announced it on its website while dropping precious few (and we do mean few) details. Read The Full Story

Facebook Home Review

, Apr 9th 2013 Discuss [6]

Is your smartphone social? Facebook isn’t convinced it is and so, in lieu of one true Facebook Phone, it wants to make over every Android smartphone in its image, courtesy of Facebook Home. The new launcher will start its spread on a select range of Android devices, as well as dedicated handsets like the HTC First, from April 12, but it demands a hefty commitment: gone is the usual, flexible Android homescreen, replaced by a new UI that puts sharing front and center. Walled garden or the place where social grows? Read on for the SlashGear review.

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Facebook addresses Home privacy concerns

, Apr 5th 2013 Discuss [2]

Since its unveiling, many individuals have been vocal about Facebook Home concerns, speculating about privacy and what information the service many gather. To mitigate the worries and clarify the issues, Facebook has released answers to several questions that have been posed repeatedly, talking about what information it gathers, how privacy works with it, and more. Read The Full Story

Angelfire site may be Mark Zuckerberg’s first website

, Apr 3rd 2013 Discuss [1]

A link to a very 90s-looking Angelfire website surfaced over at Hacker News, with the poster claiming that it belongs to Mark Zuckerberg, who would have created it when he was just 15-years-old. The website is full of all sorts of interesting things, ranging from a GPA calculator for "all you psychos, myself included, who obsess over grades," to a blinking yellow eyeball welcoming visitors to "the only site where a yellow eye blinks at you." Read The Full Story

Nearly 50% of all Instagram users are on Android

, Apr 3rd 2013 Discuss [11]

It has been exactly a year since Instagram launched its app on Android, and it has proven to be a very smart move on Instagram's part. Instagram states that Android users are on par with iOS users, each sharing around 50% of Instagram's user base of over 100 million people. The impressive part is that Android's Instagram app was released a year and a half after the app was released on iOS, and it has already managed to catch-up with it. Read The Full Story

Google+ launches support for full-size photo uploads from desktop

, Apr 3rd 2013 Discuss [2]

Android smartphone users with a Google+ account know the convenience of having the full size of their photographs uploaded to the account, providing a no-hassle backup of the content that is easy to access and share later on. Now that same full-size photo upload feature has been rolled out for desktop users, who can upload and store full-size images from their computer starting today. Read The Full Story

Twitter announces new Cards and app deep-linking

, Apr 2nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Twitter Cards provide a savvy way for content to be displayed to users, providing, for example, a title, content snippet, and thumbnail in a clean card-like format. Back in December, Pinterest rolled out support for Twitter Cards, while some others, such as Instagram, have backed away from the feature. Now the microblogging service has announced the addition of three new Card types, in addition to deep-linking for apps. Read The Full Story
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