Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a data analysis company, to better leverage users' tweets about television to draw in more advertisers. Trendrr analyzes data from social media sites such as Twitter to help businesses grow their brands. The ...
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Unity Technologies is working on adding the ability to simplify 2D game creation using its cross-platform development tools, and has also worked with Facebook to make it easier for users to integrate Facebook in their games, the company ...
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Governments requested information about 38,000 Facebook users in the first six months of this year the social network has revealed. Facebook's Global Government Requests Report comes after the social network revealed it received 10,000 ...
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Intel is expected to announce availability next week of a low-power Atom server chip code-named Avoton, which is likely to appear soon in systems such as Hewlett-Packard's Moonshot. Avoton chips will become part of Intel's Atom C2000 ...
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A U.S. judge has put a stamp of approval on a US$20 million fund for Facebook to settle a class-action advertising suit, despite objections from groups representing minors on the site. The ruling was issued Monday in the U.S. District ...
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Erogear, a leading provider of large-format wearable display technology announced a new product line named “Fos.” These new devices are fabric patches each containing a high-brightness LED grid and Bluetooth for wireless display ...
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Google's services, including its search service used by nine out of 10 people in the UK, went down for just five minutes over the weekend - but web activity plunged by 40 per cent as a result. The rare outage in Google's services, which ...
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Yahoo has scored higher web traffic to its portfolio of sites and services than Google, for the first time since May 2011. According to analytics company ComScore, Yahoo attracted 196.6 million unique visitors to its pages in July 2013, a ...
Businesses are collecting more information about individuals than ever, but almost two thirds of people aren't aware what data about them is being collected or don't know it's being collected at all. Further reading Ninety per cent of ...
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Facebook doesn't want to be just a place for friends anymore. As part of its quest for mobile and global domination, the social network is adding restaurant reservations and movie show times to the Facebook app. Now Facebook's mobile ...
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LinkedIn used to offer a pretty passive experience: Put your resume on the professional social networking site and hope it catches a recruiter’s eye. But LinkedIn isn’t resting on its laurels, especially when it comes to ...
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Facebook's mobile advances have pushed the company's stock price up to its $38 IPO price for the first time since the company went public in May 2012. Facebook shares hit a high of $38.31 today shortly after the markets opened, but then ...
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Facebook today announced a pilot program aimed at helping developers take their mobile games global. The world's largest social network is looking to use its massive mobile user base to help game developers stand out in what has become a ...
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Does your Facebook search bar look a bit different today? Don't be surprised if it does. Starting today, Facebook is rolling out Graph Search, the advanced search feature that the social network launched in beta earlier this year. Graph ...
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Summer is upon us—and for most people, that means hitting the beach, going swimming, and catching some sun. For nerds, however, summer means we're more likely to be dragged away from the security of our computer and TV screens. Never ...
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