Twitter’s big problem: It still needs better filters

May 01, 2012 No Comments

Things couldn’t be better at Twitter, CEO Dick Costolo told attendees at a conference on Tuesday, saying the business is going “phenomenally well,” and the company is “confident we have a hit on our hands” with its Promoted Tweets feature for advertisers… Tweet This Post

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Jon Hamm & Rupert Murdoch Victims of Bogus Google Scandal

May 01, 2012 No Comments

SOS Racisme, a French NGO that fights discrimination, has accused Google of reinforcing the notion of an international Jewish conspiracy to control the media. Where did they get this idea? From autocomplete suggestions in search… Tweet This Post

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T-Mobile Prism leaked: entry-level Huawei smartphone to launch in May

May 01, 2012 No Comments

While the design (and even the briefing slides) scream affordable, we’re sure there must be some Big Magenta customers aching for a keenly-priced smartphone fix. So here’s the Prism. Huawei’s behind that T-Mobile face, cooking up a Android Gingerbread phone with a pretty weedy 600MHz processor and a 3… Tweet This Post

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Women from Twitter, Gilt, One Kings Lane join NBCU’s new digital advisory board

May 01, 2012 No Comments

Women at NBCU, NBCUniversal’s female-targeted ad network, marketing and research initiative, is launching a new digital advisory board called Women@NBCU. It will “serve as a think tank on female trends and marketing to women across the web, mobile, social and emerging media platforms… Tweet This Post

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How Google Translate Works Its Magic

May 01, 2012 No Comments

Google Translate has reached a milestone of 200 million users on translate.google.com. Ordinarily, we wouldn’t report a basic usage statistic like that, but this one deserves to be celebrated. Google’s scale could someday make it possible for all human beings to understand each other… Tweet This Post

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Mashable, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+ Win Their First Webby Awards [EXCLUSIVE]

May 01, 2012 No Comments

The Webby Awards may be in its 16th year, but there’s no shortage of websites and services to recognize for the first time — and Mashable is proud to announce it is among them, and in some very good company… Tweet This Post

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Google / PayPal Sales Exec Tyler Hoffman Joins Virtual Currency Rewards Startup ifeelgoods

Apr 30, 2012 No Comments

ifeelgoods has a brilliant idea — letting you earn Facebook Credits for ecommerce purchases or following a brand on Twitter — but now it has to convince big companies and shopping sites to adopt its tech… Tweet This Post

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KegDroid Android Serves Beer With a Google+ Login [VIDEO]

Apr 30, 2012 No Comments

Need a beer? Want to show your love for Google’s Android operating system at the same time? Then look no further than KegDroid. Named Betsy, this kegerator features a touchscreen for selecting your drink of choice, and two taps as arms for dispensing your order… Tweet This Post

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Google Wave reaches zero amplitude

Apr 30, 2012 No Comments

We knew it was coming, but alas, the loss of Google Wave hits us anew now that the execution date has finally come. To say we fully grokked this platform would be untrue, but as we dug through its history to gather our thoughts, we realized what a misunderstood creature Wave really was… Tweet This [...]

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Apple spits out Android option from Chomp app navigator

Apr 29, 2012 No Comments

It’s taken a bit longer than we expected, but following Apple’s acquisition of app search engine Chomp, the Android option has now been cut out from its homepage. We’re now left with the choice between iPhone and iPad categories, alongside existing shortcuts for popular freebies and apps on sale, in a few efforts to cut [...]

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Google Releases Full Report of FCC Investigation Into Street View Probe, Finds That Senior Staff Knew

Apr 28, 2012 No Comments

Earlier today Google released the full report of the FCC’s investigation into the collection of  “payload data” from open Wi-Fi networks — aka passwords, email and search history from open networks — that its fleet of Street View cars obtained between 2008 and April 2010… Tweet This Post

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Google TV YouTube app updated for better recommendations, search and sharing

Apr 28, 2012 No Comments

It only makes sense that the Google TV initiative to increase personalization would extend to videos served up from its YouTube site, and now the official app has been updated to do just that. The new version brings recommendations meant to pull gems you might like out of the ever growing pile of content available, [...]

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