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Yahoo Continues Acquiring to Add Features for Flickr and Comms Apps
Marissa Mayer's company has been waving its checkbook again, adding yet more talent and technology as it continues to revamp and refocus on features. This week's acquisitions include photo app maker GhostBird and conference call company Rondee. Welcome to the Conference Hot on the heels of recent acquisitions of Summly back in March and
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Social Media Briefs: Pinterest, Yahoo Update Search, Anametrix Socializes Data
The first week of June brought a host of social media updates, especially where search is concerned. Let’s take a look. Just My Pins, Please Pinterest unveiled a new feature that allows users to search for items they’ve pinned in the past.
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Yahoo Mail Classic to be Discontinued
The redesign of Yahoo continues as the company announced that Yahoo Classic Mail will be discontinued as of today. Classic is in the Past Yahoo has been going through a string of updates lately that started after CEO Marisa Mayer was hired in early 2012. The first of these
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Social Media Briefs: Native Ads on Tumblr, CEOs Lead on Social
This week, while we were checking out the new Gmail or crossing our fingers that we were important enough to have our Facebook pages verified by Zuckerberg, there were some smaller, but significant updates released across other platforms and networks. Security Rules Now that Twitter allows a two-step verification process
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Recession Relief: New Job Openings at Jive, Forrester, Yahoo, Pinterest, Hootsuite, Nuxeo and Yammer (23-May-13)
Start off the New Year with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here
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Dropbox's Mailbox App Hits the iPad
The rollercoaster success story of Mailbox, acquired by Dropbox after barely a month in existence, should get heavy email users excited as the iPad version of the app arrives to save their in-box.
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Flickr Gets the Yahoo Upgrade Treatment With Hi-Res Pics and 1TB Storage
Alongside the Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo is taking off the wraps on one of its earlier acquisitions. Image-sharing service Flickr gets a major hi-resolution makeover with a new app for Android users. Flicking Through Your Pics Yahoo might be all excited about its new billion dollar acquisition in the form of Tumblr, but
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Confirmed: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
Yahoo has announced that it will acquire Tumblr in a refreshingly honestly press release that states "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business." Yahoo Gets Social, Finally After all the excitement of a possible social media buying war last week, it looks
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Tumblr The Target of a Social Media Bidding War?
Yahoo is bidding for Tumblr in an attempt to boost its social media credentials, but Facebook and other parties may be interested in spoiling the party.
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Social Media Briefs: SocialBro Analyzes Twitter Content, Yahoo Deems Tweets Newsworthy
This week Google dominated the social media news with updates released for Google Plus and Google Hangouts. Believe it or not, however, for those of us not at Google I/O developers conference, there was other social media news this week. Here are a few stories you may have missed.
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Recession Relief: New Job Openings at Twitter, Tumblr, Gnip, North Plains, Yahoo, Moxie and Squarespace (2-May-13)
Start off the New Year with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here
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Yahoo Continues Redesign with Introduction of Home Page Stream Ads
Yahoo continues its attempt to reinvent itself with a variety of updates and features, which now include Yahoo Stream Ads and an interactive billboard ad. An Advertising Addition Over the past few years the relevance of Yahoo has dwindled with the rise of Google and other social sites.
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LinkedIn Creates Super-Integrated Contacts App for iPhone
Social business service LinkedIn is making lots of moves this month, and its latest effort integrates your contacts with the likes of Outlook, your Google information and other sources to create a new breed of personal assistant app. Everything's Getting Linked In Having earlier this month updated the iOS LinkedIn app with a news- and
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Yahoo Puts Summly To Work in New Search App
Yahoo has barely put the welcome mat back in the cupboard for new acquisition Summly, yet it already it has an updated iOS app to make use of the service's summarizing features. Summing Things Up Nicely Summly was the talk of the town last month having been snapped up by
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