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Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem

Peter Kafka in Media May 18, 2013 at 8:12 pm PT

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One Year After IPO, Facebook’s Biggest Bets Could Take a Long Time to Pay Off

Mike Isaac in Social May 18, 2013 at 12:53 pm PT

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When People Live Their Lives Online, the Concept of Sharing Changes, Says Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel (Video)

in Dive Into Mobile on May 3 at 10:00 am PT

Why using photos to communicate is potentially a larger opportunity than using photos to put ourselves on display.
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Airbnb Now Wants to Check Your Government ID

in Commerce on April 30 at 9:00 am PT

Airbnb is about to take a very big bet against anonymity.
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Pict Launches Pretty Tools for Brands to Create “Shoppable Photos”

in Commerce on April 25 at 7:30 am PT

Pict today launches a set of free (for the moment) Web and mobile tools for brands to publish photos that include product information and sharing links to Pinterest and elsewhere. So, instead of a flat photo, this is a sort of embeddable rich media object (on Facebook, it looks like a video, where users click to play). Pict is backed by Lowercase Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Opus Capital, Angelpad, 500 Startups and others.

Product Dude Prashant Fuloria Lands at Flurry After Google and Facebook

in Mobile on April 22 at 11:16 am PT

He directs monetization products by day and rocks out on guitar by night.
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Watch Google, WhatsApp, Facebook and Ushahidi on Our Dive Into Mobile Livestream

in Dive Into Mobile on April 9 at 10:47 am PT

Watch Google’s Eric Schmidt, WhatsApp’s Jan Koum, Facebook’s Mike Schroepfer and Ushahidi’s Juliana Rotich live on April 16.
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WhatsApp: We’re Not Selling to Google

in Mobile on April 8 at 9:03 pm PT

WhatsApp exec says there’s no truth to acquisition rumors.
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Yahoo Deal Is the Latest Example of Dropbox Flexing Its Muscles

in News on April 2 at 11:14 am PT

Dropbox has emerged as the strongest-positioned consumer technology startup in Silicon Valley, given that it actually makes money, is a talent magnet and has lots of room to grow.
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Among Big Properties, Apple and Amazon Have Greatest Portions of Mobile-Only Users

in Mobile on March 25 at 7:00 am PT

The folks who measure how many people visit websites have been slow to count up mobile Web, smartphone and tablet users. But comScore is catching up, with its new “Multi-Platform” rankings.
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Spotify and Facebook Designer Rasmus Andersson Joins Dropbox

in News on March 22 at 9:43 am PT

Dropbox, that fast-growing Silicon Valley company with a product that regular people actually pay money to use, has made another big hire. Rasmus Andersson joins the company’s design and engineering teams from Facebook, where he spent two years after being the chief designer at Spotify.

Hangtime Launches Event-Finding App to “Map the Social Future”

in News on March 7 at 8:53 am PT

Serial serial entrepreneur Karl Jacob is back with a new startup, just in time for SXSW.
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Airbnb Hires Facebook’s Mike Curtis as Head of Engineering

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, February 21, 2013 at 10:05 am PT

Old Media Is the New Hotness for Chris Hughes and Larry Kramer

Posted by Liz Gannes in Dive Into Media, February 12, 2013 at 4:13 pm PT

Facebook Search Could Actually Be Great for Google (Why? Antitrust.)

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, January 16, 2013 at 11:34 am PT

Maybe “Being the Product” Isn’t So Bad: Why Data Harvesting Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, January 10, 2013 at 6:30 am PT

2012, The Year I Basically Stopped Using Apple’s iOS Apps

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, December 29, 2012 at 7:03 pm PT

The Most Popular Pages on Wikipedia in 2012: Facebook, One Direction and … Cul De Sacs?

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, December 27, 2012 at 2:10 pm PT

No, Facebook’s Not Buying WhatsApp (But Keep an Eye on It)

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, December 3, 2012 at 12:26 pm PT

In a Post-Facebook IPO World, SecondMarket Evolves Away From Internet Companies

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 9, 2012 at 10:30 am PT

Countdown to Dive Into Mobile (Plus Some Livestreaming for Those Who Can’t Make It IRL)

Posted by Liz Gannes in Dive Into Mobile, October 24, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Eric Schmidt: Android-Apple Is the Defining Fight in the Industry Today

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, October 10, 2012 at 5:44 pm PT

With Relaunch, LinkedIn Competitor BranchOut Tries to Persuade Users to Stick Around

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, October 8, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Chamath Palihapitiya Personally Buys Majority Stake in Mobile Development Shop Xtreme Labs

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, September 25, 2012 at 11:10 am PT

Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Is Back, and He Wants to Bring You Your Tech News

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, September 15, 2012 at 5:38 pm PT

Big Years for Instagram and Pinterest Bust Up the Social Networking Charts

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, August 27, 2012 at 1:06 pm PT

Klout Revises Its Algorithm — But Fear Not, It Says Most Scores Will Go Up

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, August 14, 2012 at 10:01 am PT