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.
Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2010 at 8:36 am PT
Andrew Siegel–Yahoo’s head of corporate development, who is in charge of its mergers and acquisitions strategy–is leaving the company, according to sources.
The move comes after Siegel–who has made some very prescient calls about game-changing acquisition targets for the company–has become increasingly frustrated in getting them completed.
Siegel’s exit is part of a long line of departures of top talent under the leadership of CEO Carol Bartz. Yahoo has no replacement for him as yet.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 1, 2010 at 3:00 pm PT
Pulse, the visually engaging mobile news reader, is adding a social element today. To date, Pulse (for iPad, iPhone and Android) gave users an easily scannable and image-driven view of their favorite RSS feeds. Now, users will also be able to add their Facebook accounts and flip through material posted by their friends.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 30, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT
The prevailing opinion among tech entrepreneurs seems to be that everything, online and off, would be improved by a social component, and for some sectors, what it means to “get social” is quite obvious. But motivating people to be healthy and athletic is one of the most interesting and novel extensions of the digital social identity I’ve seen.
