Social network Google+ is launching some tweaks and updates to users' profile pages, as well as enabling local reviews. "We spend lots of time listening to your feedback, and today we're launching some profile and page updates that you've ...
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Over the past year, it’s been impossible to ignore what research firms IDC and Gartner describe as the four forces of technology. Cloud, big data, mobility and social forces are now driving IT innovation, we are told, and woe to the ...
Individuals' personal data needs to be monetised if web service business models are to be sustained, otherwise we risk coming against an industry-wide "brick wall", computer scientist and Microsoft Research "scholar at large" Jaron Lanier ...
The Commonwealth Bank has launched its smartphone banking app Kaching as a social app that can be accessed from within Facebook. Customers can make payments to Facebook Events, and gift payments to friends and family from within the ...
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Facebook is buying Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite, an ad analysis platform, in a move that should increase its advertising revenue and give marketers better information about their campaigns across the social network, on both desktop ...
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Facebook is about to launch a redesign of its News Feed feature. The social network sent press invitations to a March 7 event at the company's offices in Menlo Park, Calif. "Come see a new look for News Feed," the invite reads. Facebook ...
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Facebook has blocked Vintage Camera, an Instagram-like photo app, from accessing its API (application programming interface). The move follows the recent blocking of other apps by the social networking giant. Vintage Camera is an app for ...
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Facebook is working to set the record straight following a report suggesting that the site is gaming its News Feed so that people who pay to promote their posts will get more interaction from users than those who don't. Facebook issued a ...
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Facebook is giving its News Feed section “a new look” and is planning to reveal the changes next week during an invite-only media event. Currently there are no details on the changes. “Come see a new look for News ...
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Facebook is rolling out a patch to fix a rare bug in its API that had apparently been leaking users' phone numbers to app developers. The glitch, which was first reported back in June 2012, was affecting the email field in some mobile ...
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Microsoft's Yammer social network for enterprises will add message translation to help firms with multilingual operations. "Removing language as a barrier to cross-company collaboration can be a competitive game changer for multinational ...
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The social network is partnering with mobile operators to allow free data access for consumers to use Facebook messaging. Facebook first opened its messenger app up to non-members in December 2012 in efforts to rival similar services like ...
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Samsung Canada, the leading supplier of mobile phones in the Canadian marketplace, today announced the launch of the world's first 8-inch tablet, the GALAXY Note 8.0. Unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the GALAXY Note ...
"As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion," Trustworthy Computing team general manager Matt Thomlinson said in a blog post. "During our investigation, we found ...
Oracle has laid in out in detail how it intends to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com in the highly competitive arena for next-generation marketing software. The vendor spent $871 million in December to acquire marketing automation ...
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