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This week’s headlines: Facebook Testing Separate Tab for Publisher Content, Twitter Moves Toward MRC Accreditation, Snapchat Allows for Link Sharing from iOS Share Sheet and Instagram Lets Two People Go Live at Once.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Testing Pinterest-Like Sharing Option Called Sets, Twitter Releases Calendar of Safety Policy Changes, Messenger Gets PayPal Payments, Amazon Accepting Takeout Orders, LinkedIn Launches Smart Replies to Help Users Clear Their Inboxes, Gmail Adds New Productivity Tools, Twitter Misreports User Numbers and Amazon Key Launches.

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Episode 176

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This week’s headlines: Snapchat Debuts its First Ad, Foursquare Unveils First Ad Campaign, Tumblr Ad Performance Revealed in Yahoo Earnings Report, Twitter Pitches Fabric to Developers and Facebook Launches New App Called Rooms.

The week’s news quick hits: Flickr Launches Its First iPad App, Twitter Plans 2015 Rollout for Buy Button, Foursquare Launches Video Ad to Promote Messenger, Tsu Promises to Share Revenue with Content Creators, Groupon Unveils Pages, Google Launches Inbox and Ello Becomes a Public Benefit Corporation.

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Hosts: Taylor Wiegert (www.twitter.com/twiegert) and Kevin Dugan (www.twitter.com/prblog)

This week’s headlines: The New Foursquare App Launches, Twitter Introduces Objective-Based Campaigns, Facebook Bans Like-Gating, Twitter Launches Promoted Videos Beta and Facebook Launches Conversion Tracking Tool for Ads.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Starts Initial Flock to Unlock Campaign, YouTube Acquires Directr, Gmail Makes Unsubscribing Easier, Pinterest Launches Messaging Feature, Square Launches Appointments, Flipboard Launching Video Ads and Yahoo Launching Self-Serve Ad Buying Platform.

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Episode 143

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This week’s headlines: Pinterest Acquires VisualGraph, Yahoo Relaunches Advertising Offering, Facebook Sunsets Sponsored Stories, Google Allows Any Google+ User to Send Email to Other Google+ Users and Vine Launches Web Profiles. 

The week’s news quick hits: Snapchat Usernames and Phone Numbers Hacked, Facebook Says It Does Not Read Unpublished Posts, Facebook Adds “Create Post” Shortcut for Page Admins, Indiegogo Launches Indiegogo Outpost, Twitter Co-Founder Launches Jelly and Facebook Acquires Little Eye Labs.

Episode 140

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This week’s headlines: Tumblr Launches Sponsored Trending Blog Ads, Facebook Updates Newsfeed Algorithm to Benefit Publishers, Apple Acquires Topsy, Twitter Launching Retargeted Ads and Foursquare Adds Smart Recommendation Notifications.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Launches Unfollow Button, New Jersey Makes Employers Requesting Social Media Passwords Illegal, Datasift Receives Additional Funding, Twitter Relaunches Media Site with TV Section, Twitter Inks Deal with Deutsche Telekom, Google Adds Export Feature for Gmail and Google Calendar and Instagram to Hold Event on December 12.

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Launches Verified Pages and Profiles, The New Gmail is Here and First Post-Yahoo Acquisition Tumblr Ads Emerge.

The week’s news quick hits: Google+ iPhone App Gets Upgrade, Facebook Comes Under Scrutiny from Feminist Groups, Twitter Wins Lawsuit to Fight Spammers, Wikipedia Launches Nearby Pages, Twitter Updates Lists and LinkedIn Launches Two-Step Verification.

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Messenger Unrolled for Non-Users, Twitter Follower Case is Closed, Instagram Pulls Away from Twitter and Google+ Launches Communities.

The week’s news quick hits cover: Facebook Isn’t Buying Whatsapp (for now), Google Updates Gmail for iOS, Recurring Facebook Events Just Got Easier, Sponsored Stories Settlement Gets One Step Closer, The Facebook Vote Over Policy Changes is Open, 8,600 Tumblr Accounts Hacked, Socl Opens for Everyone, Twitter Expands Local Trends to More Cities, Facebook Ditches the Word “Subscribe” and Foursquare Allows Businesses to Create Events.