Wal-Mart announced Monday morning that it has agreed to acquire social media startup Kosmix to aid the retailer Read More
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SocialFlow gets $7 million and the Firehose
SocialFlow, a social media optimization platform, announced Friday that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding Read More
One of most glaringly obvious features Twitter always lacked was an advanced search engine. The trademark of any Read More
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Topsy doubles down on real-time search
Real-time search engine Topsy announced Thursday that it has closed a $15 million Series C round from all Read More
(Updated with UberMedia’s response) Just a few days after UberMedia announced that it’s raised $17.5 million from Accel Read More
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Twitter Promoted Products webinar leaked
Well, it’s not nearly as riveting as the story of a hacker gaining access to over 300 internal Read More
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Social media sense: Egypt’s ban did nothing
[Update on Feb. 3 at 11:16 AM PST: I spoke too soon. The Internet shutdown did do something: it Read More
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Facebook’s Sponsored Stories walk a fine line
Promoted Tweets? Oh, Twitter, you could learn something from your social networking big brother. Facebook is introducing a totally Read More
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What you need to know – 01/21/11
Eric Schmidt, who has led Google as CEO since 2001, will be replaced on April 4 by co-founder Read More
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Twitter, Facebook and Zynga holiday records
Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu! Meaning “Happy New Year!” in Japanese, it’s the message that set a new record for Read More
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Gnip gets $2M to resell the Twitter firehose
[Updated at 7:51 PST, Nov. 19 to clarify details of funding round.] Gnip, a social media data provider Read More
For a game that’s driven by statistics and puts stats on a pedestal, it’s quite peculiar that Tweets Read More
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StockTwits secures $4 million venture round
StockTwits, a real-time community-powered site for investment information, secured a $4 million venture round from existing investors the Read More
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The case of the disappearing tweets
Over the past couple days, some Twitter users have started noticing a dramatic evaporation of older tweets from Read More
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Twitter search sees one billion queries/day
Twitter revealed Wednesday afternoon that during the last few weeks, while most users explored the ins and outs Read More