Yesterday, Facebook announced a new design for Facebook Messages that features a new dual-pane layout and several other new features. The new design, which strongly resembles several popular email clients, displays recent messages in the left-pane and whole messages in the right-pane. In addition, the makeover features a search option that is located at the …
According to a regulatory filing on Monday, former PayPal CEO and early Facebook investor and board member Peter Thiel cashed out just under $400 million of stock in the social networking company last week. Although he was able to sell over $600 million of his Facebook stock in May, Thiel and other investors in Facebook …
In early August, Judge William Alsup, who is presiding over the courtroom battle between Google and Oracle, ordered both companies to provide legal disclosures of all paid and incentivized relationships with journalists. Alsup requested the disclosures, which were required as a result of his belief that the technology giants may have intentionally compromised press coverage, …
Last year, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Facebook related to the social network’s non-consensual use of users’ inadvertent endorsements. The lawsuit, which specifically targets Sponsored Stories, alleges that Facebook violated California law by publicizing users’ Facebook “likes” without permission and without providing users an option to opt-out. In addition, the plaintiffs’ lawsuit claimed they …
Recently, comScore released a whitepaper that measured the impact of viewable impressions on digital advertising. The study, which analyzed 18 different advertising campaigns with 12 major brands, was conducted to determine the percentage of ad impressions that were actually viewed and validated. To determine if an impression is valid, 50% of the ad must be seen …
Earlier this week Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams unveiled Medium, a platform that takes photos and text submitted by users and turns that information into collections that will be available for public viewing and editing. This service, which will combine aspects of photo-sharing, blogging, social networking, and tweeting, is designed to organize and …
On May 18th, Facebook held the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history. The stock, which had a peak market capitalization in excess of $104 billion, debuted at $38 per share. However, shortly after the stock went public, concerns over mobile monetization and a multitude of other problems have nearly cut the new stock’s value …
On Monday afternoon, Google announced that it had launched a custom URL feature for a select few Google+ profiles and pages. The change, which was desperately needed and over three years after Facebook offered its users this same functionality, will allow big brands and personalities to replace strings of more than 20 random numerical digits …
In a recent announcement, Google stated that they plan to begin penalizing websites that receive a high number of valid copyright removal notices. On Friday morning, Amit Singhal, who is a Google Fellow and the Senior VP of Engineering, posted the following regarding the algorithm update: “Starting next week, we will begin taking into account …
According to recent reports, Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow users to easily turn Facebook photos into printed postcards. The new feature, which is named “Mail a Postcard,” was initially built during a Facebook Hackathon and is only available to a few test users at this time. If a Facebook user is …
