Facebook celebrates one million active advertisers

B&T - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Facebook now has one million active advertisers globally, with small businesses leading the charge. The million mark is an important milestone for the social giant that wants to boost revenue with advertising targeting its 1.1 billion users. According to reports, the social giant’s global director of small business marketing solutions, Dan Levy, attributed a large chunk of the ...

Facebook is down for some users

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

DownForEveryoneOrJustMe also noted the disruption.NBC News has contacted Facebook and will update this post when we hear back.Last week, the social network ...

Julia Stiles YouTube Series Blue Coming to Hulu in TV-Length Episodes

General Sources - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Hulu in TV-length episodes, beginning with the popular Julia Stiles-starring "Blue," Wigs announced Tuesday. The first two seasons of "Blue" launched on the streaming service Monday. Earlier this year, Fox entered into a multi-year programming, marketing and distribution partnership with Wigs, after Fox decided to extend the reach to Hulu as part of its multi-platform ...

Facebook experiences apparent outage

CNet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Downforeveryoneorjustme.com was giving visitors intermittent "down" answers this evening when they checked on Facebook's status. While the mobile version of Facebook was available to smartphone ...

Microsoft says it freed millions of computers worldwide from criminal botnet

The Star - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than US$500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant ...

DuckDuckGo Search Engine Surges 33

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says web traffic on his search engine, billed as an alternative to Google that doesn't store your private information, surged 33 percent after the NSA news broke. Weinberg discusses the model of his search engine, and ...

Soldiers face Facebook smackdown

News.com.au - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Australian Army soldiers cross the obstacle course. Authorities are investigating new claims of sexually demeaning behaviour towards women in ...

Facebook touts advertising milestone

The West Australian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook said Tuesday that more than a million businesses now advertise at the leading social network."I know business owners like these invest their hard-earned money and time into running their companies," Facebook's Dan Levy said in a blog post that referred to advertisers such as Singapore's Retail Ministry and retailer Springwools in ...

Snowden and hegemony of social media

China Daily - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

/enpproperty--> The whole Edward Snowden episode is intriguing for a number of reasons, but whether Beijing or the courts will have the final say on the future of the whistleblower if the US demands his extradition or whether he is a hero or not are not among the more important questions. Therefore, of course, we are having exactly these angles in the newspapers. It is revealing that ...

Facebook for iOS gets emoticons

CNet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

(Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove/CNET) Facebook added a collection of emoticons to the latest version of its application for iOS devices. In version 6.2, released Tuesday, Facebook users on ...

Facebook looking to partner with Samsung

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

(Credit: James Martin/CNET) During Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's whirlwind Asia tour, he stopped by the offices of Samsung this week for a quick meeting with the company's president, Shin Jong Kyun. After the meeting, Shin stopped to talk to reporters and said that the two discussed potential partnerships, according ...

Mississippi leans on Google to crack down on illegal products

West Australian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Reuters © An employee rides her bike past a logo next to the main entrance of the Google building in Zurich July 9, 2009. REUTERS/Christian ...

You Know Whats Cool 1 Million Advertisers At Facebook

Forbes - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

just hit 1 million advertisers, a milestone that signals that it has become a mainstream advertising channel for small and medium-sized businesses. OK, so maybe cool isn't the right word, but it's hard to resist a good line ...

Coca-Cola Leveraging Social To Drive Leadership in Social Media Marketing

Forbes - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Coca-Cola.FM and live-streaming music events, Coca-Cola has shown the world how revolutionary they can be and how this type of marketing evokes emotional, long-lasting customer engagement. ...

Facebook reportedly delays release of video ads

Cnet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

(Credit: Facebook) Facebook is postponing the release of video advertisements that automatically play in News Feed, according to Ad Age. The social network wants to release the specialized units alongside new social-networking features and is now targeting an unofficial mid-October launch date, Ad ...

CORRECTED-FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan Amazon builds a grocery business

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:29pm EDT (Corrects to remove reference to Mark Zaleski in paragraph 18) By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001. Twelve years ...

DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal

Search Engine Watch - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

NSA PRISM surveillance program in the United States, many people have become much more concerned about what exactly search engines are tracking about them. Although Google, Bing, and Yahoo have stringent privacy policies, there have been enough people worried that they have begun looking at alternative search engines, particularly so-called "private search ...

Naked gymnast faces charges over San Francisco transit stop antics

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on ...

Tech Stocks H-P Intel boost Dow Facebook rises

Market Watch - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks were modestly higher Tuesday, lifted by gains in shares of Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and Facebook ...

Taylor Swift’s Feminist Twitter Account Blows Up

Web Pro News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Taylor Swift has taken some flack from feminists in the past for her rather romantic songwriting, but now she’s getting a very different sort of attention. The singer/songwriter is the focus of a parody account ...

Facebook Did Not Intentionally Block Tor

Web Pro News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Tor has become a tool of free expression in parts of the world where citizens can not speak freely against their government. Many use the anonymous Web network to share information and updates with the rest of the world via social networks like Facebook and Twitter. What happens then when one of those social networks blocks Tor? That very question arose today when Tor users found that they ...

How to hide your data from Internet snoops

CNN - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

>Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow his updates on Twitter or add him to your Circles on Google+.(CNN) -- Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. But having concerns about NSA cybersnooping doesn't mean we must surrender all privacy -- what's left of it -- in our day-to-day online ...