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After Months of Hacks, Twitter Launches Heightened Security Features

Mike Isaac in Social May 22, 2013 at 12:35 pm PT

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Xbox One Joins the Gamecasting Fray With Social Game DVR

Eric Johnson in Social May 22, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

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How Many Users Does Tumblr Really Have?

in Media on May 21 at 5:17 am PT

Yahoo says it acquired 300 million new users yesterday. But, for now, the number advertisers care about will be much smaller.
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Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem

in Media on May 18 at 8:12 pm PT

Does Tumblr host a lot of pictures of naked people? Yep. But they’ve got an ad plan that deals with that.
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Time Machine! Tumblr’s David Karp in 2007, Age 21.

in Media on May 17 at 3:03 pm PT

Back when he was 21, had 75,000 users and was raising $750,000.
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Microsoft’s Anti-Google Campaign Gets a Boost, From Google

in Media on May 15 at 9:37 pm PT

Google tells Microsoft to turn off a home-grown YouTube app. Microsoft couldn’t be happier.
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SoundCloud Starts Pushing Its Own Native Ads Out of a New York Outpost

in Media on May 13 at 6:00 am PT

Audio is good. Audio plus visual: Better.
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Dick Costolo Tweets Out His University of Michigan Commencement Speech

in Media on May 4 at 5:23 pm PT

Of course he did! It’s pretty good, too: Fail whales, Second City and Keebler elves.
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Spotify Takes a Page From the Twitter Playbook, Buys Music Discovery App Tunigo

in Media on May 3 at 7:07 am PT

Lots of tracks out there. Who’s going to help you find the ones you want to hear?
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Twitter Starts Selling Self-Serve Ads to Everyone

in Media on April 30 at 8:01 am PT

A year after launching its self-serve ad platform, Twitter has opened up the service to the general public. The goal: Help the company create its own version of Google’s powerful AdWords product, in time for an upcoming IPO.

Twitter Gets a Vote of Confidence — And a Big Check — From Madison Avenue

in Media on April 22 at 11:56 am PT

“Hundreds of millions” from Starcom is nice. But the official stamp of approval from an ad heavyweight could be worth more: “Twitter will be part of every evaluation and buying decision.”
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FTV, Elevation Put $38 Million Into Advertising Dashboard MarketShare

in Media on April 22 at 9:01 am PT

The company that helps direct $50 billion in ad spending has more cash for itself.
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BBC America, Twitter Announce Video Ad Deal

Twitter Music Is Here Today, and This Time You Can Use It

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 18, 2013 at 5:16 am PT

Twitter Tries to Make Its Ad Pitch More Googley, With Keyword Targeting

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 17, 2013 at 9:38 am PT

MLB.com Boss Bob Bowman Is Still an Apple Man. But Samsung Is on Deck. (Video)

Posted by Peter Kafka in Dive Into Mobile, April 16, 2013 at 3:37 pm PT

Twitter’s New Video Plan: Ads, Brought to You by Ads

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 16, 2013 at 10:22 am PT

Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can’t Use It

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 12, 2013 at 9:30 am PT

Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley on Growth, Data and His New Money (Q&A)

Posted by Peter Kafka in Mobile, April 11, 2013 at 8:44 am PT

Big Media Loves Promoted Trends, Twitter’s Big-Dollar Digital Billboards

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, April 9, 2013 at 8:24 am PT

Cheer Up, Facebook Investors! Maybe People Aren’t Bailing on Mark Zuckerberg, After All.

Posted by Peter Kafka in Social, April 3, 2013 at 5:59 am PT

Tweet Any Good Books Lately?

Posted by Laura Moser, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices, March 30, 2013 at 9:38 am PT

Play Ball! Free MLB Streams On Twitter, Facebook (And AllThingsD).

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, March 29, 2013 at 8:32 am PT

Twitter Could Do $1 Billion in 2014, Says eMarketer

Big Media Flexes Its Muscle, and Justin Timberlake Sells a Lot of Music

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, March 27, 2013 at 4:00 am PT

BBC Weather Forecast Calls for Hacked Twitter Account

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, March 21, 2013 at 7:45 am PT

Small Business Web Ad Dollars: Still Way Too Small

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, March 18, 2013 at 9:01 pm PT