Facebook Acquires Mobile Technologies, a Speech Translation Developer
Facebook has acquired Mobile Technologies, a developer of voice recognition and translation tools, the two companies announced late Monday. The terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Mobile Technologies, founded in 2001, built Jibbigo, an app for iPhone and Android that the company describes as “the world’s first speech-to-speech translator on a phone that […]
TweetDeck Gets a Makeover With New Tweet Panel
Twitter’s TweetDeck rolled out a handful of new features on Monday, including a new tweet panel designed to enhance the functionality of the application. The new panel, which was highlighted in a post on TweetDeck’s blog, is positioned on the left side of the screen and can remain open while users scroll through their categories […]
You Can Soon Make Restaurant Reservations on Facebook
The next time you visit a restaurant’s Facebook page on your mobile phone, you’ll be able to do more than browse photos and posts: You’ll also be able to book a table for four. The feature is part of a new integration with OpenTable, which allows you to make online reservations at about 20,000 U.S. […]
Yahoo to Pay Tumblr’s David Karp $81 Million to Stay for 4 Years
Yahoo filed a 10-Q report with the SEC Thursday, disclosing some additional details about the 10 startups it acquired between the end of March and the end of June — including its biggest one, Tumblr, which cost the company around $1.1 billion. The filing also reveals Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp’s compensation package. In […]
Analyst Prediction: Facebook Video Ads Will Generate $1 Billion in 2014
Facebook users may not be excited to see video ads hit their News Feeds, but company stockholders should be. A report released by Morgan Stanley on Wednesday predicts that Facebook’s video advertisements will generate more than $1 billion in 2014 — a lofty total considering they don’t exist yet. This total would constitute 1% of […]
Can a Popular Baby Franchise Turn Its Facebook Fans Into Customers?
Talk to most small businesses about social media, and they want to know how to get more fans and followers. But what if you already have a large following? How do you turn those fans into customers? That’s the challenge Meg Faure, founder of The Baby Sense Company, and Jeremy Pepper, a Los Angeles-based social […]
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LinkedIn Revenues Jump 59%
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