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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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If you tried using Apple’s new iCloud service in the last two days and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working, you weren’t alone: The service has gone through a series of opening day(s) hiccups....
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"Like My Status" Was Facebook's Breakout Meme in 2011
Facebook has a nice tradition of telling us about emerging acronyms found in its users’ status messages each year. It’s just the kind of thing to make a young person like me feel like an old fogey for...
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Timehop's Next Stop Could Be Your Calendar
Yesterday, the social media memory app Timehop turned Valentine’s Day into Groundhog Day, when it apparently spammed some users with multiple emails, reminding them several times of what they were up...
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Facebook Pokes Nasdaq -- And Not in a Nice Way -- In Veiled Threat to Stock...
It’s called a warning shot, and Facebook just let a doozie of one fly at the Nasdaq Stock Market, via a clever pair of articles in two major media outlets. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that...
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Facebook Responds to Zuckerberg Profile Hack: Our Bad (Sorta)
If at first you don’t succeed, get a supervisor’s attention. Or, in this case, that of the chief executive officer. A Palestinian hacker posted a Facebook security vulnerability to CEO Mark...
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