Now Turkey’s banned YouTube as well as Twitter
This time the cause seems to be a leaked intelligence conversation regarding possible military action in Syria. Read more »
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This time the cause seems to be a leaked intelligence conversation regarding possible military action in Syria. Read more »
Last month, Re/Code leaked the news that social customer service company Lithium Technologies was in discussions to acquire Klout, the social leaderboard tool. Today, JP Mangalinden of Fortune announced that Klout was… Read more »
Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus might seem strange at the outset, but it could have a big payoff in the not-too-distant future. Read more »
The ink is apparently dry on the acquisition deal between “social influence” and analytics platform Klout and customer service software company Lithium Technologies: Fortune reported Wednesday that the deal has closed, for… Read more »
Twitter says it is not only fighting the Turkish government’s recent ban on the service, but it is also fighting a request to remove a specific account that has been tweeting… Read more »
Twitter announced that users will be able to tag up to 10 people in photos Read more »
Facebook’s first high-profile acquisition is chugging along: Instagram said a blog post Tuesday that it’s surpassed 200 million monthly active users, up from 100 million just one year ago. According to the post, 50 million of… Read more »
With the release of Verified Profiles, Quora is offering users a chance to ask questions to public figures in a town-hall style format. Read more »
The Twitter ban in Turkey may have been easy to bypass at first, but now the government has introduced more serious measures than DNS redirection. Read more »
In a great HBR piece, Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B. Rasmussen dissect the way that businesses are applying social sciences in better sensemaking about customer phenomenology: how people experience life. This leaps… Read more »