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Twitter Search Results Now Reveal Older Tweets
0By: Talha Bhatti | February 8th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Popular micro-blogging site, Twitter, has just updated its search feature and it now displays older tweets in the results page. This is an improvement over the previous version which showed tweets that had been made up to a week ago but nothing past that point. The week limit has been removed but Twitter has not given out the details of how far...
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Latest Valuations Put Twitter Near $10 Billion Mark
By: Talha Bhatti | February 4th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Micro-blogging startup Twitter has been looking to become a major force online for quite some time now as it works out ways to generate revenue form its huge user-base. It has also tried to hold on to shares for as long as it can and is still stopping talent that joined the firm early from selling shares. However, those employees may not be in ...
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Facebook’s Face Recognition Tag Suggestion Feature Makes Come Back In U.S.
By: Talha Bhatti | February 2nd, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
The world's biggest social network, Facebook, stated in a post on Thursday, Januray 31 that they were re-enabling the photo Tag Suggestions feature for users in the US. The feature was actually taken off line last year by Facebook to make technical improveme...
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Three Ways Canadian Startup Cinemagram is Better than Twitter’s Vine
By: Jeff Stewart | February 1st, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Social Media
Some time ago Twitter introduced a mobile app called Vine that let people share short videos through the micro-blogging platform. The idea for Vine was quite similar to Montreal-based startup, Cinemagram, wh...
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Facebook’s Fourth Quarter Earning Reports Show Mobile Zooming Past Web
By: Talha Bhatti | January 31st, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
The publicly traded social network, Facebook, recently revealed data about its fourth quarter of 2012. The company impressed with a 40 percent increase in revenue along with an increase in mobile users. The stats presented by the company showed that for the first time in the company's history, users accessing the service through mobile had out...
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French Court Clamps Down on Twitter Racism
By: Umair Yousuf | January 26th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
The French courts have finally clamped down on the local version of social media platform Twitter where a number of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic hashtags have been doing the rounds. Although Twitter itself under pressure from advocacy groups has shut down accounts of such users but it has so far refused to identify and name the perpetrators. ...
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Triposo Adds New Features to its Popular App
By: Umair Yousuf | January 26th, 2013 | Apple, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
Need a hotel room fast? Or wish to check out the latest events taking place in your area? Look no further than Triposo’s new travel guide application for iOS devices. The application has now been upgraded with new features to deliver the best results to users and an Android version is also set to become available soon. Launched in Octo...
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Facebook Graph Search Validates Wajam, Says Authorities
By: Zain Nabi | January 23rd, 2013 | News, Social Media
Montreal-based Wajam, a search engine that gives you more personalised results of your search, believes that Facebook’s new graph search has validated the work it has been doing. ...
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Video-Blogging Site Keek Secures $18 Million In Recently Concluded Funding Round
By: Ali Raza | January 19th, 2013 | Android, Business, iOS, News, O Canada, Social Media
Keek is a microvideo sharing platform that has successfully secured $18 million investments from a recently concluded funding round. The Twitter like service has so far raised capital worth $30 million ever since its inception. The latest injection of cash came from were obtained from Plazacorp Ventures, AGF Investments and Pine...
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Facebook’s New Graph Search Fails to Draw Positive Reviews
By: Zain Nabi | January 18th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Soon after Facebook introduced its new search tool that will enable people to search for more personalised information, a number of reviewers have voiced negative views about the new tool, which initially was considered to be a big hit. Brian Wieser, a senior analyst at Pivotal Research Group, has raised some concerns with respe...
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