Social media has continued to evolve over the course of the last decade.
From social networking to social gaming to social commerce, the common
belief is that social will continue to bleed into other categories.
Social Finance is SM’s latest iteration and there are a number of
exciting start-ups trying to attack the trillion-dollar student debt
problem in the U.S.
Would George H. W. Bush have liked broccoli if his mother referred to it as "Power Bunch Broccoli" instead of just plain (hold your nose) broccoli? Research from Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab says he would.
With one’s share value tanking to half its original IPO value, Mark
Zuckerberg’s been in an ongoing crisis management mode for months now.
Acccepting every speaking engagement offered, ironically he spoke at
TechCrunch’s Disrupt Conference on the same date Apple’s stock escalated to an all-time high of $660.97.
Apple’s highly-anticipated iPhone 5 is finally here and what do China’s fanatical fanboys & gals get after their long wait? A longer iPhone… Really? Less than impressed with this critical post-Jobs product, China’s clever, creative and critical netizens have logged into China’s social media matrix to call Apple out.
In a potential landmark case, Twitter was ordered by Manhattan Criminal
Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino 73 days ago to turn over three month’s
of tweets from Malcolm Harris. Accounts under contention are related to
two of Harris’s profiles on the microblogging site are @destructuremal and @getsworse.
Stuck with an iPad and wish you had a
full-size Macbook? The oddly-named CruxSkunk will help soothe your
loss.
Samsung’s latest device looks as if the
camera portion of a smartphone was given a steady diet of steroids
and protein supplements. The overall specifications are pretty decent as well.
Pictures have revealed that Sony is
preparing an apparently powerful hybrid tablet computer with a
built-in retractable keyboard and the full Windows 8 operating
system.
It was inevitable the game-like features of Foursquare’s ‘mayorships,’ ‘badges’ and ‘check-ins’ would ultimately pave a path to paid advertising. Yes, that unassuming little geolocation-based
app that launched three short years ago at South by Southwest and has
amassed over 20 million registered users has decided to monetize.
Finally slipping into their big boy pants, Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai’s company have launched "Promoted Updates," with clients Madison Avenue ad agencies have been known to court over the years.
Ever wonder why the World War II British slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On"
has surfaced some 70 years later to become today’s most ubiquitous meme? Not
only has the Internet been cyberventillating variations on the theme online for
over a year now, one can find t-shirts and other memorabilia easily
accessible for purchase in the real world.
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