Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have bothposted statements denying knowledge of PRISM, a program reportedly run by the U.S. National Security Agency to gather communications from top Internet companies with their apparent cooperation.Page's post, written with Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, is headlined "What the...
The struggle to figure out how social media and smartphones can best fit into the daily news cycle seems never-ending. Considering the torrent of reporting fiascos surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing - most of which centered, as they often do in the age of social media, on erroneous tweets and the virality...
You probably already knew this, but a new report from Forrester wants to emphasize this seemingly obvious point: Tablets are not simply larger touchscreen smartphones. There are significant difference in where people use them, how they use them and for how long - all of which have big implications for app...
LinkedIn, once a site known for job hunting, is now becoming an online news destination with some job ads attached. The shift won't distract from the site's job focus, though; it will actually enhance it.Late Tuesday, LinkedIn quietly launched Channels - its name for topics - on LinkedIn Today, its...
Apple's profits slid 18% last quarter. Gross margins dropped from 38.44% in 2012 to 37.5% in 2013. While there are a number of reasons for this, the biggest seems to be consumer preference for lower-priced products like the iPad Mini.While Apple investors have spanked the stock in response, in reality...
Futurama, the animated comedy from Simpsons creator Matt Groening and writer David X. Cohen, is unparalleled in its ability to mix lowbrow humor with high concept science and technology. But after an initial run on Fox from 1999 to 2003 and a glorious revival six years later, Comedy Central has...
Yahoo's new iOS app launched this morning, bringing to the table the results of its $30 million acquisition of news summary app Summly last month. It's basically a full overhaul of Yahoo's flagship app focused on providing news via algorithmic summaries that originated with Summly founder and 17-year-old tech wunderkind Nick D'Aloisio.Bottom line: The...
LinkedIn, the professional network people use to maintain an online resume, find jobs and job candidates, and network, is sending a clear message with its acquisition of news-reader Pulse: It's a media company, and it's not ashamed of that.Pulse makes an app that allows readers to browse articles from a...
Social networks like Facebook and Google+ are suddenly more image-happy than ever. And that's awesome, in theory. But images ≠ photos. And that's an important distinction. (See also Facebook Updates News Feed With Dedicated Feeds, Bigger Photos and Google+ Update Adds Crazy Big Cover Photos + Other Stuff.)According to Facebook, today the News...
Facebook just announced the biggest change to its design since Timeline shook things up back in 2011 — and actually, it looks pretty awesome. The big, popping visuals that Timeline introduced certainly heralded the News Feed redesign that Facebook announced today at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters.Big Changes Rolling Out...
Facebook rolled out an updated News Feed on Thursday, aiming to provide a "personalized newspaper" featuring updates both from friends and selected news sources.The new News Feed will be slowly rolled out to users over the next few weeks. (To get it early, click this link to join the waiting...
News Feed, one of the three so-called "pillars" of Facebook - alongside Timeline and Graph Search - is the bustling epicenter of the social network. And it's overdue for an overhaul.In a press invite sent out Friday, Facebook invited us to "Come see a new look for News Feed" on...
Add Twitter to the list of this week's high profile hacks. Friday afternoon Twitter joined the ranks of recently compromised sites like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, disclosing that as many as a quarter of a million Twitter accounts may have been compromised in the intrusion....
Apple, Google and Intel are being sued for striking a secret agreement among themselves not to poach employees from each other. Which is, um, how should we put this? Not kosher? "Likely illegal," is how Ed Colligan, former CEO of Palm, described it when they asked him to join the devil's...
Who owns the links we click and embed? Should the original creator of that content be paid when that material is shared online, even with just links? Across the pond in Ireland, newspapers are wresting with this issue as they attempt to charge third parties for linking and displaying the paper's...
Having slogged through so much bad news of late, last week Hewlett-Packard marketers were quick to run to their laptops to make hay out of a closely watched market report showing that HP remained the word's top-selling PC maker. But in their rush to shine a positive light on their...
Earlier this week, the book publishing industry hit a milestone. For the first time ever, a publisher successfully sued consumers for pirating books via BitTorrent. As a result of the lawsuit, a pair of New York residents will pay $7,000 in damages to John Wiley and Sons, the company that...
Twitter Tuesday announced new search capabilities that give it the upper hand as a breaking news destination over basically every other news organization on the planet, from newspapers to cable networks to websites and everything in between. When a new search begins to trend on Twitter, Twitter's new API will send...
Google and other search companies are under siege in various nations from news publishers and their lobbyists trying to establish more control over content. New laws and industry association walk-outs are challenging aggregators' ability to display excerpts of news stories within search results, which could have far-reaching effects.Google's Three-Front Battle:...
Guest author David Brauchl is chief communication officer for paid content strategy experts Piano Media. He was a professional news photographer for nearly 20 years, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work in Sarajevo, South Africa and Germany.Newspaper publishers struggle to successfully monetize their online...
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