Mike Isaac in Social on August 18, 2013 at 7:00 pm PT
The hacker says he was just trying to help!
Lauren Goode in Social on February 15, 2012 at 1:41 pm PT
Timehop taps into your social networks to remind you what you did a year ago today. But the start-up is starting to look beyond social.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 7, 2011 at 8:02 am PT
Last year’s winner was “HMU,” for “hit me up”; in 2009, it was “FML” for “(eff) my life.”
Peter Kafka in Mobile on October 14, 2011 at 9:39 am PT
Apple says it has had at least five hiccups since the new service launched Wednesday. It helpfully documents on them on a new status page.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard.
Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 9, 2011 at 10:53 pm PT
I last wrote about Bubble Motion, provider of the Bubbly mobile messaging service, exactly a year ago. At the time, the company had 150,000 users. Today, it has more than seven million.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 19, 2011 at 6:09 pm PT
Los Angeles-based start-up Collecta has shuttered its real-time search business, including a destination site, API and publisher widgets. The company follows OneRiot, Ellerdale and other competitors that have hightailed away from indexing status updates from social services, which a couple of years ago had seemed like an enormous opportunity.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 18, 2011 at 3:38 pm PT
Katie takes a look at Quora, a question-and-answer site that encourages thoughtful—even long-winded—discussions.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 14, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Other items besides Justin Bieber made it onto Facebook’s list of 2010 trends in status messages. But don’t think for a second that Bieber didn’t earn his spot on yet another year-end roundup.