Pinterest is coming of age and marketing firms are gathering to preach Pinterest marketing gospel. The site is an unusual beast: a mix of image-focused design (like Instagram), founded on a social-follower premise… Read more »
A week after news broke that Snapchat was charging $750,000 for one day of ephemeral ad placement, Snapchat’s head of revenue Mike Randall is out, according to a Re/Code report. Randall ran the company’s advertising… Read more »
Twitter’s acquisition of Bangalore-based ZipDial gives it access to a fairly massive market for “missed call” services, which many phone users in developing countries use as a low-cost method of accessing… Read more »
Purple WiFi is a wireless hotspot company that doesn’t own any hotspots. Instead it has built a virtual network of business Wi-Fi access points available to the public for free –… Read more »
Two of the authors of the original Cluetrain Manifesto from 1999 have come out with an update that says many of the risks and potential dangers facing the internet come from… Read more »
The next year will be the most important one of Pinterest’s life. Until now, the company has focused on its application and its audience, to the detriment of its coffers. It had the… Read more »
Medium has hired someone to develop its native advertising partnerships, the first such role for the company. As Mathew Ingram previously reported, the blog company is expanding its content advertising, publishing… Read more »
The success of email newsletters is a sign of how powerful — and valuable — personal curation can be for readers who are swamped by an ever-growing flood of real-time information Read more »
While the original Truecaller app provides handy information about incoming calls, the Truedialer app aims to do the same with outgoing calls, while replacing the user’s standard contacts app. Read more »
ROK appears to be building a compelling music service tied to a bargain mobile service plan, but it’s only sharing it with a handful of people on what was supposed to… Read more »