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Reported.ly has plugged pulled by owner, First Look Media
‘Over the coming days and weeks, we’re going to explore our options, including re-establishing reported.ly at another news outlet or creating our own independent entity’ founder Andy Carvin told...
View ArticleFacebook, other big techs struggle to find the right solution to news curation
The social network Facebook’s decision to take human beings out of the news curation business is already leading to some embarrassing content leading its Trending list. It’s a damned if you do, damned...
View ArticleSocial media-based news venture reported.ly shuttered, but won’t be not...
The First Look Media venture has had its funding pulled, and at least so far no traditional media brand has stepped up to keep the experiment alive – let’s hope that situation gets reversed soon The...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg says one goal of news feed is opinion diversity
‘People naturally seek out things that fit their preferences. News Feed encourages greater diversity by also showing opinions from your friends and people you may disagree with’ – Mark Zuckerberg In...
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Who wants to own Twitter now? Rumored bidders fall away, leading to 13% stock...
Salesforce and others take look, get shareholder feedback, then apparently shy away from pulling the trigger on a bid. That leaves things up in the air, at least for now. The race to buy Twitter has...
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European Commission accuses Facebook of providing misleading info about...
‘Companies are obliged to give the Commission accurate information during merger investigations. They must take this obligation seriously’ Brussels, Belgium – December 20, 2016 — The European...
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Erika Masonhall to leave NBC News to join Facebook News Partnership team
Masonhall has been with NBC News handling communications since 2011, and before that was press secretary for Sen Joseph Lieberman The Facebook News Partnership team is coming together. Today, Erika...
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Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly and Essence sign up with Snapchat’s Discover...
The latest shiny object for publishers is Snapchat. As the press release below points out, Snap’s content partners now include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Now This News, the Daily...
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Twitter files to prevent US govt. agencies seeking to unmask the ‘Alt...
Update: The government apparently didn’t like the bad publicity and has withdrawn its request to unmaks the Twitter account holder. Find update here. Twitter has filed a complaint against the U.S....
View ArticleTwitter drops complaint after the DOJ withdraws effort to unmask @ALT_uscis...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have withdrawn their requests to unmask the Twitter account holder of @ALT_USCIS, news agencies and the account...
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Groupon revenue falls modestly, trims losses through lower costs
Company’s stock is falling this morning after rising earlier this year due to a stock repurchase initiative; the Chicago-based company has exited 11 markets in an effort to scale back to profitable...
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Facebook says it grew advertising 51% in first quarter of 2017
The day today has been spent looking at earnings reports from newspaper companies, some of whom were rather proud to report that their advertising only fell 6 or 7 percent. This afternoon, after the...
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Twitter suffers outages, first in UK and Japan, then elsewhere
Two waves of outages appear to have brought down the popular social media website, with many journalists put out that they cannot use their favorite way to quickly confirm news It is a testament to...
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The Hollywood Reporter partners with MVPindex to launch menu of social...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – June 6, 2017 – The Hollywood Reporter, the entertainment industry’s flagship media brand, today announced a partnership with leading real-time social media intelligence platform...
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Time Inc. launches new social video brand, THE PRETTY
NEW YORK, NY — June 15, 2017 — Time Inc. announced today that it has launched THE PRETTY, a social video brand for a millennial and Gen Z audience hungry for beauty content. The brand combines...
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Facebook reports ad revenue grew 47% in second quarter of this year, net...
The social network Facebook reported Q2 earnings after the bell on Wednesday, and like Google, reported impressive revenue gains. In fact, its 47 percent gain in advertising likely will represent the...
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Time Inc. launches new video series ‘Homemade vs. The Internet’ for...
NEW YORK, NY — September 8, 2017 — Time Inc. today announced that it launched a new video series for Watch, Facebook’s new platform for shows and videos. “Homemade vs. The Internet” is now available on...
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ANA Report: Social media now a key component in supporting sponsorship...
NEW YORK, NY — September 25, 2017 — Social media — particularly Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram — has emerged as a key component in supporting sponsorship activations among a great majority of...
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Facebook, Twitter, Google face backlash as each in turn fails to address real...
Between promoting fake news, allowing fake accounts, and allowing bots and trolls to promulgate, the big social media companies have failed to be honest with their customers, their advertisers, and...
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Local Media Consortium to partner with Facebook-owned CrowdTangle
The content discovery and social monitoring platform will provide LMC members with access to tools for real-time social media monitoring and tracking in newsrooms SARASOTA, Fla. – October 4, 2017 – The...
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