Episode 195

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

This week’s headlines: Pinterest Launches First Ad API, Twitter Reports Disappointing Q1 Results and Facebook Puts End to Friends Data API.

The week’s news quick hits: Instagram Now Supports Emoji Hashtags, Instagram Clarifies Community Guidelines, Facebook Messenger Gets Video Calling Support, Anonymous Sharing App Secret to be Shut Down, Facebook Hits 40 Million Small Business Pages Milestone and LinkedIn Reports Q1 Earnings.

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Episode 175

This week’s headlines: Student Discovers Facebook Messenger-Based Payment System, Facebook Expands Mobile Audience Network, Snapchat Confirms Ad Rollout and Private Social Networks Called Into Question.

The week’s news quick hits: Yahoo Prepping for $10 Million Investment in Snapchat, Pinterest Launches Pin Picks Co-Marketing Effort with Media Companies, Facebook Working on Anonymous Sharing App, Facebook Introduces Local Awareness Ad Objective, Facebook Closes on WhatsApp Acquisition, Twitter Files Lawsuit to Publish Transparency Report, Google+ Gets Polls, French Bank Allows Money Transfers Using Tweets, Facebook Supports Stickers in Comments, Twitter Launches Audio Cards and Twitpic Shuts Down After All.

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Episode 170

This week’s headlines: Twitter Buy Button Coming This Year, Amazon Acquires Twitch, Facebook Cracks Down on Clickbait Content with Algorithm Update, Pinterest Rolls Out Deeper Analytics for Brands and Faceboook Brings Post Search to Mobile.

The week’s news quick hits: Yahoo Rolls Out Content Recommendation Box, Secret Works to Improve User Behavior, Snapchat Reaches $10 Billion Valuation, Facebook Ads Can Now Be Targeted Based on Cell PHone Signal, Twitter Opens Access to Analytics Dashboard to All Users, Google Removes Authorship from Search Results, Quora Launches Its First iPad App and Facebook Updates Event Ads and Pages.

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Episode 166

This week’s headlines: Twitter Upgrades Analytics Dashboard, LinkedIn Acquires Newsle, Google+ Removes Real Name Requirement, Snapchat Introduces Geofilters, Facebook Tests Buy Button and Twitter Acquires Payments Platform.

The week’s news quick hits: Secret Launches Collections and Facebook Friend Integration, Line Files for IPO, Facebook Launches Out-App Purchase Ads, Facebook Ads Manager Goes Mobile and Pinterest Allows Users to Follow their Interests.

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