Last month, Twitter unveiled the new and redesigned Brand Pages for partners. In order fo the interested companies to qualify for this new feature, they must have an active insertion of $25,000 on advertising products on this social network. High profile customers, who already spent at least $2 million on Twitter advertising programs have been [...]
Continue reading...Radu Tyrsina, 31. January 2012
Microsoft has had a change of plans in its strategy. Apparently it will not be hosting the MIX 2012 conference this year. The event will most likely be embedded into a larger developer conference due to be held next year. Tim O’Brien who’s a general manager for the Developer & Platform Evangelism branch, says this decision [...]
Continue reading...Cameron Rawson, 29. January 2012
Twitter has been a massive helping hand when politics has fallen to its knees in a country. It’s a great way of sharing a message – instantly — with the chance of it going viral via the incredibly helpful retweet feature. However, has Twitter recently announced, this specific use could have just vanished as the [...]
Continue reading...Cameron Rawson, 29. January 2012
Jordan, or Katie Price has she is now known to most, tweeted several times on 22nd January. All tweets were out of the ordinary for her: “Great news about China’s latest GDP figures!!” “Chinese leaders now likely to loosen monetary policy to stimulate growth. Yay!!” OMG!! Eurozone debt problems can only be properly solved by [...]
Continue reading...Radu Tyrsina, 23. January 2012
Brazil has been one of the biggest challenges Facebook had to face in its battle for world domination. In this exotic country, the social networking site Orkut seemed to rule supreme and unspoiled. But, as it happened to Myspace a while back, it doesn’t take a long time for things to be completely turned upside [...]
Continue reading...Cameron Rawson, 19. January 2012
As of this moment (Thursday, 19th January 2012) at approximately 21:43, as I write this — MegaUpload Founder & CEO, Kim Dotcom and three exectuvies from the company have been arrested. Earlier today, the 4, including Dotcom were placed under arrest in Auckland, New Zealand. The US DOJ (Department of Justice) describes three other executives as “at [...]
Continue reading...Editor, 19. January 2012
The Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) have caused quite a stir in the local, international and online circles. For what was supposed to be changes proposed last October, there has been a lot of protests and debate over the issue. It would seem that over the last 48 hours, the [...]
Continue reading...Danish Mughal, 17. January 2012
As we reported earlier today, Wikipedia has decided to go all black on Wednesday, January 18, in order to go against Protect IP Acts (PIPA) which is due for a vote in the U.S. Senate on January 24. This news has been confirmed by Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of the online encyclopedia, through his Twitter [...]
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Radu Tyrsina, 1. February 2012
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