Pinterest, the online social site that allows users to “pin”their favorite things to their personal wall is now looking to monetize the service by selling “pins” to businesses. Pinterest currently has millions of users and a $4 billion valuation, but as of yet it does...
Another week, another discovered security flaw. This week’s flaw, dubbed “Covert Redirect,” allows cyber-attackers to disguise themselves as log-in popups based on an affected site’s domain. Social media sites are among those affected, leaving potentially millions of users at risk of having personal information stolen.
In the age of social media, sellers have seen greater openness from customers who now more openly share opinions, ratings, and feedback with their peers and companies they do business with. Many successful consumer brands have relied on consumers for not just marketing but also...
Until now, the point of Foursquare has more or less been to allow people to check-in to locations and find out what locations their friends were checked-in to. That is more or less an artifact of history now, as Foursquare makes a big bet in...
After starting the day at a deficit, Facebook picked up momentum after announcing several new products at its f8 developer conference, including the Mobile Ad Network.
Using its auto-fill service Facebook is putting its toe into eCommerce waters, albeit with a partner retailer in both cases. The social media giant announced yesterday that the 450,000 merchants currently using e-commerce site builder Ecwid will now be easily able to integrate Autofill With Facebook...
Funds-transfer company MoneyGram on April 28 announced a deal in which U.S. consumers in May may begin sending transfers using PicomoPay’s Facebook application to more than 336,000 MoneyGram agent locations in 200 countries. Social and mobile-payments platform PicomoPay enables consumers to conduct person-to-person payments...
It’s not easy being an innovator, as Lyft and Uber drivers in place likes Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are finding out as the police are issuing thousands of dollars in citations to “send a message.” Officers in plain cloths in Madison and Pittsburgh have used the...
Frrole, an India-based data analytics start-up that combs Twitter looking for patterns and trends that could be interesting and actionable for businesses, has just raised $245K in Angel funding from investors including former head of Yahoo! R&D centre in India Sharad Sharma, Eka Software founder Manav Garg and Google’s...
