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Thought your Bang With Friends account was a secret? Think again…
Thought you could get away with using cheeky Facebook app Bang With Friends without anyone finding out? Think again. In a move that is likely to see hoards of users desert the app, the
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Waze founder Uri Levine on navigating to global success. Is this Facebook’s next billion-dollar acquisition?
Rumours are surfacing that Facebook is eyeing up social driving app Waze to follow on Instagram’s footsteps as its second big $1bn acquisition after Instagram. We travelled to Tel Aviv last year to examine the startup scene
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Love, muesli and Nigeria – how the internet changed everything
This is the latest guest post from Adam Fletcher and Paul Hawkins, collectively known as both The Hipstery and “those two guys who should really get real jobs”… Anthropologists and other such smart people
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Score! iVentureCapital backs football game maker Kamicat
German investor iVentureCapital is donning a supporter’s jersey for social game maker Kamicat, with a deal that includes partnership with another of the firm’s portfolio companies, TrafficCaptain. Kamicat, based in Hanover and with offices
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Pioneering scientists’ network ResearchGate raises $20m
ResearchGate – popularly dubbed the “Facebook for scientists” though in reality closer to LinkedIn – has raised an additional $20m of equity-based financing according to documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The Top 50 iTunes apps of all time – as Apple counts down to 50 billion downloads
Apple announced a countdown to 50 billion app downloads today, signaling that iOS downloads are north of 49 billion already. “Apps have revolutionised the way we play video games, consume news, do business, educate,
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Facebook’s mobile surges in Q1 – 751 million users, a third of revenue coming from mobile
It looks like Facebook’s huge mobile risk is turning into a huge mobile opportunity. The social network reported astounding mobile growth today with 750 million monthly active users on mobile devices (a 54 per
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Facebook usage data reveals just how ‘depressingly stereotypical’ your life probably is
Social networks offer unparalleled insights into how humans interact with each other – assuming you know how to look at the data. This is clear judging by the latest analysis from answer engine Wolfram Alpha, which examined the
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Social networks: wild expectations versus grim reality
Here Startup Hipster – the most elusive member of the Berlin Startup Scene, pens his thoughts on the hard-won truths of social networking. It all comes down to stalking, Twitter-induced seizures, food, and Justin Timberlake’s face… There’s
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Google, not Facebook, will win the true war for likes, Forrester says
In an online world dominated by the need to drive revenue based on advertisers, Google typically takes the top spot for intent-driving marketing, and Facebook leads in affinity-driving marketing. But a new report from Forrester says
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