Apple has acquired Topsy, a social analytics firm, for a rumoured $200m. The company specialises in crunching Twitter data, but Apple will not reveal its plans for the start-up. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time time, and ...
Apple has acquired Topsy, a social media analytics company that focuses on a range of data from Twitter, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. Apple paid more than US$200 million for Topsy, the report said. The company ...
Tags: Apple, Acquire, Social Media Analytics
Bing is incorporating more information from outside social networks such as Facebook and Twitter into how it displays search results involving people. The changes are designed to give users at-a-glance answers to their search queries ...
Tags: Bing, Facebook, Twitter Data
Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the Internet service are demographically very different from the public, according to a study ...
Tags: Twitter, Internet service, company news
Twitter has confirmed that it acquired Bluefin Labs, a vendor of data that uses commentary on social networks to measure the effectiveness of commercials and programs on TV. "We believe that Bluefin's data science capabilities and social ...
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New visualization tool will search, analyze, and display tweets in the context of location and time LIDV Solutions today announced that a new Twitter visualization feature will be available for the forthcoming releases of its Visual ...
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Social media analytics service PeopleBrowsr said it has won a temporary restraining order in a California court against Twitter's decision to end its four-year old arrangement to supply data to the company. PeopleBrowsr said late ...
Tags: California, PeopleBrowsr, Twitter, Firehose, Twitter data