Episode 280

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This week’s headlines: Snapchat Inks Deals for Original High-Quality Content, Amazon Launches Echo Show, Pinterest Updates Lens to Make Searching Multiple Object Images Easier, Snapchat Launches New Features for Creativity, Instagram Launches Mobile Web App and Snapchat Disappoints in First Earnings Report

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Shuts Down Oculus Story Studio, Spotify Lets Users Share Music Through Scannable Photos, Facebook Long-Form Video Making Its Debut, Messenger Adds Chat Extensions from Publishers and Apps, Yelp’s Earnings Report Is Not Good, Facebook Lead Ads Get Offline Conversion Features, Facebook Adds Political CTA for Pages and AI Diminishing Visibility of Poor Websites on Facebook.

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Episode 220

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Launches Yelp Competitor, Pinterest Allows Users to Track Price Drops and Facebook Testing Interest-Based News Feeds.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Adds Video Embed Options, Topsy Shuts Down, Facebook Allows All Verified Pages to Live Stream, Facebook Updates Year In Review Video Feature and Twitter Revises User Conduct Policy.

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Episode 188

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Offers Tools for Group Selling, Twitter Acquires Influencer Network, Facebook Adding Relevance Scores to Ads and Pinterest Removes Affiliate Links.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Acquires Odysee, Yelp Acquires Eat24, Facebook Launches Legacy Contact Feature, Pinterest May Be Launching ‘Buy’ Button this Year, Pinterest Introduces App Pins, Facebook Relaunches Preferred Marketing Developer Program with New Name, Reddit Lets Community Choose Charity to Receive more than $800,000 and Facebook Lets Users Add Stickers to Photos.

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Episode 172

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This week’s headlines: Zuckerberg Says More Effort to be Put Behind Internet.org, Facebook Brings Changes to Videos and Opens Up Video Ads, Twitter Launches Buy Button, Apple Introduces New Hardware and Facebook Cuts Down on Ads Users Don't Like.

The week’s news quick hits: Spotify Video Ads Coming in Q4, Slingshot Removes Reply-to-Unlock Option, Yelp Lawsuit Dismissed, Leaderboards Come to Swarm, Snapchat Settles Lawsuit with Co-Founder and Facebook Tests Scheduled Post Deletion. 

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Episode 158

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This week’s headlines: Pinterest Launches First Promoted Pins Campaigns, Twitter Rolls Out Mute Button, Yelp Launches Reservation Tool and Foursquare Launches Swarm.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Removes Poke and Camera from App Store, Facebook Considering New Sales Office in China, Facebook Tests Context Cards, Google Glass Gets Foursquare and Pinterest Valued at $5 Billion.

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Episode 148

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This week’s headlines: Lithium Technologies Acquires Klout, Twitter Testing Major Profile Redesign and Facebook Punishes Analytics Companies for Data Violations.

The week’s news quick hits: Instagram Releases Book for Brands, LinkedIn Shutting Down Intro, Yahoo Search to Integrate Yelp Reviews and Facebook Allows Users to Set Custom Genders.

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Episode 128

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This week’s headlines: Restaurant Facebook Pages Integrate with OpenTable and TV Listings Come to Facebook, Yelp Reviewers Can Now Go Mobile, The New York Times Goes Social When Site Goes Down and Facebook Testing Mobile Payments.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Acquires Mobile Technologies, Twitter Updates Tweetdeck, Facebook Testing App for Celebrities, Google+ for Android Gets an Update, Sina Weibo Reports Strong Growth and Twitter Tests Local Trends.

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Rolls Out Graph Search, Twitter Introduces Ad Retargeting, Yelp Diversifies with Booking Services, Instagram Allows Embedding of Content, LinkedIn Overhauls Mobile Search and Vine Releases Major Update.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Reader Closes Down, Facebook Hashtags Get Additional Features, Former Xbox Lead Takes Helm at Zynga, Yahoo Acquires Qwiki, Instagram Adds Landscape Mode, Facebook Adds Folders to Home, Twitter Adds Direct Message Syncing, Tumblr Updates Mobile Apps for Content Discovery, Foursquare Now Available for One of World’s Most Popular Phones and Zynga Announces Real-Money Gambling Games for the UK.

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This week’s headlines: Digg’s RSS Reader Coming Just In Time, Facebook Delays Video Ads Launch, Instagram Debuts Video Sharing and Facebook Updates for Brands.

The week’s news quick hits: Skype Launches Video Messages, Yelp Introduces “Call to Action” Feature, Viggle Reaches 3 Million Users, Facebook Passes 1 Million Advertiser Milestone, Twitter’s TV Targeting Ads’ Price Tag Revealed, YouTube Launches Training for Better Advertiser Content, Facebook Unrolls Photo Comments, Twitter Acquires Spindle and Facebook Bug Leaks User Data.