Facebook Poaches PayPal President to Head Up Mobile Messaging
Facebook has just poached PayPal’s president, David Marcus, to be its VP-messaging products, a new role at the company. The hiring of a seasoned mobile-payments...
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Facebook Programmatic Whiz Jonathan Shottan Jumps To Pinterest (And TellApart)
Need more proof Pinterest is preparing for a big monetization push? The social platform has hired Jonathan Shottan, a former Facebook ad product exec who...
BuzzFeed President Jon Steinberg Leaving the Company
BuzzFeed President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Steinberg is leaving his position after four years at the fast-growing website. He will move into an advisory...
Internet Week is Coming and So Is Aereo, Netflix, Yahoo and Buzzfeed
Is there an industry more impacted by tech than media? We think no, and that’s why on May 19, Day 1 of Internet Week New...
Former Gaming Company RockYou Rocks Out As An In-Game Video Ad Network
RockYou is clawing its way back. The 8-year-old company, which once produced social games, was one of the first MySpace and Facebook third-party app developers...
Social intelligence: Malaysian SMEs ahead of Asean curve
SMEs in Malaysia are more apt to think their companies are ‘Socially-Intelligent Organisations’ than their Asean peers, according to a survey by Kelly Services, the...
SnappyTV Releases Social Playback Of TV Clips, Fox Sports Hopes To Capitalize
Online video, especially online video embedded in social networks, is essentially a free-for-all. There are few rules or best practices and brands and vendors are...
Social Media: A Strong Influence on Millennial’s Buying Habits
At last some concrete evidence confirming a trend that has seemed likely. A recent study has shown that, compared with older generations, the buying habits...
Is A Second Wave Of Social CRM Consolidation Upon Us?
Call the 2011-2012 time frame the first wave of social CRM, when companies like Salesforce.com and Oracle snapped up social media analytics and marketing companies....
China Mobile Internet Use Gains Sophistication, Hits Roadblocks
China is one of the fastest-growing, largest mobile markets in the world. Two new studies from Forrester Research and mobile developer-services platform Umeng delve into...
Oracle Dives Deeper Into Paid Media With Partner API Program
Barely two weeks after basking in the glow of its BlueKai buy, enterprise software giant Oracle is at it again – this time debuting an...
Sprinklr Acquires Dachis Group, Preps Paid Social Product
Enterprise social media management company Sprinklr has acquired social data analytics and services firm Dachis Group for an undisclosed sum, the latest venture from Razorfish’s...
Mobile Marketing Will Have 6 Billion New Targets This Year
Mobile marketers will have a whole lot of new bulls-eyes to target this year. According to the latest report from IHS Technology, the global market...
Indy Star’s Bizarre Tale of Real-Life Exorcism Wins Huge Mobile Traffic, but Cashing In Is Harder
Gannett’s Indianapolis Star is happily learning what movie studios have long known: Ghost stories are a huge draw. “The exorcisms of Latoya Ammons,” a 5,300-word...
What Would an ‘Honest’ Facebook Movie Look Like?
If you’re a Facebook user, by now you’ve probably received your very own movie. In honor of its tenth year, Facebook has given us all...
Inside Super Bowl War Room, Hyundai Goes For Restraint Over ‘Oreo Moments’
Hyundai didn’t even try to dazzle the Twitter masses with an Oreo moment last night. Instead, knowing that virtually every other Super Bowl advertiser and...
