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Facebook Buys Mobile Discovery Service Glancee
Friday, May 04, 2012 10:15 PM
Facebook has scooped up another startup in its path toward mobile dominance. This time, it's Glancee, an ambient location-based service that competes with Highlight. From Glancee's home page: "We started Glancee in 2010 with the goal of bringing...



Why Sound Could Win in the Battle Against Video on the Web
Friday, May 04, 2012 10:02 PM
Just like you learned to crawl before you walked, you learned to listen to your mother's heartbeat from within her womb before you saw anything outside of it. On stage at Mashable Connect in Orlando, Soundcloud CEO Alexander Ljung described the...



How American Express Found Its Social Media Groove
Friday, May 04, 2012 8:52 PM
American Express went from virtually zero social media presence in 2009 to being hailed by Advertising Age as the "real winner" at South By Southwest this year. How did AmEx do it? Leslie Berland, SVP of digital partnerships and development at...



Storify Reimagines Interactive Stories With Element Sharing
Friday, May 04, 2012 5:30 PM
Storify already makes it easy for its users pull tweets, YouTube videos and other social media posts into embeddable timelines. Now it wants to send some of that content back onto social networks. The startup is introducing a feature that allows...



Facebook's Stock Price in Context
Friday, May 04, 2012 4:39 PM
Facebook announced its stock price on Thursday with rates between $28 and $35 per share. With a total of 337,415,352 shares set to hit the marketplace, the social network is on track to become the most valuable U.S. Internet company when it goes...



Facebook IPO Pitch: Can It Win Big Investors? [VIDEO]
Friday, May 04, 2012 2:56 PM
Looking ahead toward its much-anticipated IPO later this month, Facebook has produced a 30-minute video pitch to show big-time investors why sinking money into a publicly traded Facebook will be a good idea. It's an interesting take on the normal...



FANS.tv Wants to Be Your Social TV Hub
Friday, May 04, 2012 1:06 PM
A new social TV community site has just launched the beta version of its new website, designed to help connect audiences and fans around their favorite shows across networks. The site, Fans.tv is the culmination of more than three-and-a-half...



Google News Gets Deeper Ties to Google+
Friday, May 04, 2012 11:35 AM
Google News has a new look, and it's not just cosmetic. Besides adding larger thumbnail photos that dynamically expand when users click on topics, the news-aggregating service now has stronger ties to Google+. In a blog post about the change,...



'Avengers' Facebook Game Gets a Movie-Themed Addition [PICS]
Friday, May 04, 2012 9:10 AM
Fans of the Avengers and social gaming can now play as both their favorite movie characters and the traditional comic book versions of the superheroes in the popular Avengers Alliance Facebook game. Marvel just announced movie-themed versions of...



Google Doodle Pays Homage to Artist Keith Haring
Friday, May 04, 2012 5:09 AM
Today's Google Doodle is a tribute to Keith Haring, an artist who rose to prominence in the 1980s, leaving a strong mark on the pop culture of his time. Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 4, 1958. His father was a cartoonist, and...



 
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