Amid tensions and a shakeup among executives, Airbnb chief financial officer (CFO) Lawrence Tosi has departed the company — and left behind uncertainty over its potential initial public offering (IPO). Tosi announced his departure after he learned Airbnb’s co-founder, Brian Chesky, would name Belinda Johnson...
In an attempt to make it even easier to get the right gift this holiday shopping season, Pinterest has announced news of a personalized Secret Santa gifting tool designed to help customers get inspired to buy custom Christmas gifts for their friends and family. The...
Americans, according to the newest research from Pew, are increasingly likely to seek their news out on social media. Around a quarter of American adults — 26 percent, to be exact — report that they take the bulk of their news from at least two...
Among the many complaints leveled against national treasure Kim Kardashian-West is the fact that she is paid an awful lot to do pretty much nothing. And while we would like to argue with that — Kim K is a busy girl — the fact that she was once...
With two billion active monthly users, Facebook is leveraging its massive audience against a new vertical: real estate. According to reports, the social media giant has launched “Dynamic Ads For Real Estate,” a new advertising feature that might just challenge Zillow’s supremacy in the digital retail...
This morning, as billions of people are waking up and logging into Facebook, they are getting a gander at Facebook’s latest celebratory milestone in the form of a personalized video celebrating their contributions to it. As of yesterday (June 28), Facebook announced that it had...
Facebook has decided to modify its mission statement slightly so as to better highlight its support for various types of hobbies, social groups, and social justice organizations. In a posting on his Facebook page, CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the news that the social network company’s new mission is...
In social commerce news this week: Twitter is launching a system that allows people to earn virtual currency by streaming live on its Periscope user-generated video service. According to Reuters, this initiative is a way for the company to try to compete with YouTube and others in the search for internet...
Snap’s first quarter may have been something of a rough ride with the $2.2 billion loss — but that doesn’t seem to be slowing down the firm’s social commerce ambitions. The Seattle-based social media network and self-described camera company grabbed some headlines this week with...