Instagram's new shape options: How will it affect marketers?
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Instagram's new shape options: How will it affect marketers?

11y Leighann Morris

Instagram's new shape options: How will it affect ...

Instagram is now allowing its 300 million users to post landscape and portrait videos and images for the first time. Until now, the Facebook owned pho...

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5 things you need to know about YouTube's new gaming app
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5 things you need to know about YouTube's new gaming app

11y Leighann Morris

5 things you need to know about YouTube's new gami...

YouTube has launched its own video game streaming app and website, directly challenging Amazon’s Twitch in the growing gaming audience sector. Here ar...

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Facebook introduces 'Donate' button
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Facebook introduces 'Donate' button

11y Leighann Morris

Facebook introduces 'Donate' button

Facebook is rolling out a new tool which allows users to make donations to charities with the simple click of a button. The ‘Donate’ button - which wa...

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Spotify apologises for new privacy policy
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Spotify apologises for new privacy policy

11y Leighann Morris

Spotify apologises for new privacy policy

Spotify’s new privacy policy - which collects user contacts, photos, location, and media files from smartphones - has been heavily criticised for its ...

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Google and Twitter renew desktop search partnership
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Google and Twitter renew desktop search partnership

11y Leighann Morris

Google and Twitter renew desktop search partnershi...

A recent Google update announcement has confirmed the renewal of an expired contract between the two companies, which could help boost engagement and ...

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Facebook introduces Pages Messaging for businesses
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Facebook introduces Pages Messaging for businesses

11y Leighann Morris

Facebook introduces Pages Messaging for businesses

Facebook has introduced new communication features for Pages, including tools which allow customers to send private messages to businesses. Read More...

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Twitter to offer off-platform promoted tweets
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Twitter to offer off-platform promoted tweets

11y Leighann Morris

Twitter to offer off-platform promoted tweets

Twitter plans to offer advertisers a new type of ad: Promoted tweets and videos that appear in other apps. Read More...

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HTML5 to Be New Industry Standard, Says IAB
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HTML5 to Be New Industry Standard, Says IAB

11y Yuyu Chen

HTML5 to Be New Industry Standard, Says IAB

Advertisers have long used Flash to make interactive ads online, but the IAB is going to ditch Flash for HTML5 as the new industry standard. Read More...

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Facebook testing breaking news app
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Facebook testing breaking news app

11y Leighann Morris

Facebook testing breaking news app

Facebook is reportedly in “alpha” stage testing of a new standalone mobile news app. The product - part of the ‘Facebook for Business’ initiative - wo...

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NASA needs help designing a smartwatch app for astronauts in space
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NASA needs help designing a smartwatch app for astronauts in space

11y Leighann Morris

NASA needs help designing a smartwatch app for ast...

NASA needs you! Unfortunately not to fly to space, but rather to help design a smartwatch app that will assist astronauts living and working in space....

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Google’s ‘Buy now’ button: Not everyone's happy about it
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Google’s ‘Buy now’ button: Not everyone's happy about it

11y Leighann Morris

Google’s ‘Buy now’ button: Not everyone's happy ab...

Following both Facebook and Pinterest who have worked with Shopify to expand their e-commerce capabilities - most noticeably in the form of a buy butt...

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Auto-play ads coming to Facebook Audience Network
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Auto-play ads coming to Facebook Audience Network

11y Emily Alford

Auto-play ads coming to Facebook Audience Network

Facebook has just made app advertising a little bit easier by offering new features to its Audience Network including carousel ads and desktop video a...

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Twitter poised to add ‘buy’ button to platform
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Twitter poised to add ‘buy’ button to platform

11y Leonie Mercedes

Twitter poised to add ‘buy’ button to platform

Twitter is preparing to launch itself as serious platform for ecommerce by adding a ‘buy’ button to its service, according to reports. Read More...

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Do you ‘haha’, ‘hehe’ or ‘lol’? Facebook has you pegged
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Do you ‘haha’, ‘hehe’ or ‘lol’? Facebook has you pegged

11y Leonie Mercedes

Do you ‘haha’, ‘hehe’ or ‘lol’? Facebook has you p...

Facebook’s data team has discovered the most popular ways to laugh online, and found that whether you ‘haha’, ‘hehe’ or ‘lol’ can depend who you are. ...

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Yahoo hit by "malvertising" campaign
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Yahoo hit by "malvertising" campaign

11y Leonie Mercedes

Yahoo hit by "malvertising" campaign

Yahoo became one of the latest victims of a malvertising attack last week, as a malware company bought ad space on the search engine’s sites to delive...

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Live TV streaming platform Magine launches in the UK
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Live TV streaming platform Magine launches in the UK

11y Leonie Mercedes

Live TV streaming platform Magine launches in the ...

Stockholm-based live-streaming television service Magine TV, sometimes known as the ‘Spotify for TV’, is launching in the UK. Read More...

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Facebook develops ‘send message’ button for business interaction
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Facebook develops ‘send message’ button for business interaction

11y Guest Writer

Facebook develops ‘send message’ button for busine...

Facebook has added a ‘Send Message’ button to its platform, allowing users to privately interact with businesses through advertisements on users’ news...

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New York Times to launch mobile ads targeted to daily 'moments'
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New York Times to launch mobile ads targeted to daily 'moments'

11y Leonie Mercedes

New York Times to launch mobile ads targeted to da...

The New York Times (NYT) plans to launch a new type of mobile ad designed to engage readers depending on the time of day. Read More...

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YouTuber accuses Facebook of cheating to boost video views
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YouTuber accuses Facebook of cheating to boost video views

11y Leonie Mercedes

YouTuber accuses Facebook of cheating to boost vid...

Video blogger Hank Green has accused Facebook of lying, cheating and stealing so it can declare itself the most popular video site. Read More...

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Twitter adds “trending news” tab to app
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Twitter adds “trending news” tab to app

11y Leonie Mercedes

Twitter adds “trending news” tab to app

Yesterday Twitter unveiled a “news” tab for US users of the app, which will link to the latest news stories and discussions. Read More...

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Twitter bot corrects people who say “illegal immigrant”
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Twitter bot corrects people who say “illegal immigrant”

11y Leonie Mercedes

Twitter bot corrects people who say “illegal immig...

Two US-based journalists have created a bot that suggests alternative terms to people who tweet the phrase “illegal immigrant”. Read More...

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Majority of online video will be watched on mobile devices by 2016
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Majority of online video will be watched on mobile devices by 2016

11y Leonie Mercedes

Majority of online video will be watched on mobile...

Mobile devices will become the main platform for watching online video by next year, according to a report by ZenithOptimedia. Read More...

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Ashley Madison hack inspires flood of spam links
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Ashley Madison hack inspires flood of spam links

11y Lucinda Beeman

Ashley Madison hack inspires flood of spam links

Curious about whether your other half was registered on cheating website Ashley Madison? Don’t click the link claiming to be hacked profiles — it’s pr...

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Facebook drone to bring Internet to developing world
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Facebook drone to bring Internet to developing world

11y Lucinda Beeman

Facebook drone to bring Internet to developing wor...

Social media giant Facebook is testing a drone capable of bringing Internet to remote parts of the world, which some are calling a cynical ploy to gro...

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Amazon unveils ‘Launchpad’ to promote start-ups
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Amazon unveils ‘Launchpad’ to promote start-ups

11y Lucinda Beeman

Amazon unveils ‘Launchpad’ to promote start-ups

Amazon has announced a new programme to help start-ups across the globe launch, market and distribute their products. Read More...

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Facebook testing LinkedIn-style personality tags
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Facebook testing LinkedIn-style personality tags

11y Leighann Morris

Facebook testing LinkedIn-style personality tags

Facebook is testing a new feature that allows users to tag friends with a word and phrase that describes their personality or interests, much like Lin...

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Twitter now has a decent Windows app
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Twitter now has a decent Windows app

11y Leighann Morris

Twitter now has a decent Windows app

Microsoft users updating to Windows 10 will finally get a Twitter app that finally brings the Twitter experience on Windows up to the same standard as...

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