Episode 273

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This week’s headlines: YouTube Takes Steps to Protect Advertisers from Offensive Placements, YouTube Simplifies Ad Metrics, Reddit Launches Profiles, Instagram Expands Shopping Tags to More Businesses and Live Streaming Gets More Competitive.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Launches New Troll-Prevention Tools, Google Launches Hangouts Business Products, Facebook Strikes Deal with MLS to Stream Games, Twitter Updates Gnip Firehose to Provide Like Data, Facebook Explicitly Prohibits Use of Data for Surveillance, YouTube Annotations Editor Shutting Down, Instagram Lets Users Save Live Videos, Instagram Reaches 1 Million Advertisers Milestone, Apple Launches Clips, Facebook Audience Network Can Now Be Leveraged with Header Bidding, Google Maps Users Can Share Their Locations with Others, LinkedIn Rolls Out Trending Storylines, Instagram Testing Offline Mode and Foursquare Analytics Opens Up to More Brands.

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Episode 181

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Updates Graph Search and Brings It to Mobile, Twitter Allows Ad Targeting for App Installs, Facebook Rolls Out New Tools for Brands and Publishers and Instagram Reaches 300 Million Users.

The week’s news quick hits: YouTube Warns Users of Copywritten Material, Tumblr Launches Discovery Dashboard, Google Updates Hangouts App, YouTube Offers Contracts for Content, LinkedIn Updates Its Homepage and Vine Adds Double-Tap to Like.

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Developing Snapchat Competitor, Twitter Backs Out of SoundCloud Acquisition, Pinterest Opens Up Business Platform to Developers, Facebook Launches Update to Mobile Apps that Listens to Surroundings and YouTube Working on Deal to Acquire Twitch.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Releases Hangouts Extension for Outlook, Facebook Introduces 'Ask' Button for Relationship Statuses, Facebook Expands Video Ads Outside the United States, LinkedIn Launches "How You Rank" Feature, Facebook Helps Users with Privacy Settings and Restaurants Can Now Add Menus to Facebook Pages.

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This week’s headlines: Twitter Acquires BlueFin Labs, Facebook Launching Location-Sharing App, Facebook to Make Ads More Transparent for Users, Instagram Brings Content to the Web and LinkedIn Launching Sponsored Posts.

The week’s news quick hits cover: Pinterest Updates iOS App, Super Bowl Breaks Social Interactions Record, Zynga’s Future Still Holds [Some] Promise, Pinterest Eyes $2.5 Billion Valuation, Tumblr Rolls Out Real-Time Notifications, Twitter Streamlines Discover Tab on Mobile App, Google+ Updates Hangouts for Low-Bandwidth Users, Twitter Search Reveals Older Tweets and Facebook Deletes Facial Recognition Data in Europe.