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Reddit Gets Whoping 37 billion Page Views In 2012
0By: Kevin Green | January 2nd, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Reddit has become a very popular social news site over the years and nothing proves it more than the recently announced statistics for 2012. The website has seen a tremendous jump in visitors over the past year and in 2012 Reddit has gotten 37 billion page views from 400 million unique visitors that have read 30 million posts on the news site. ...
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Instagram Unveils Most-Photographed Sites of 2012
By: Jeff Stewart | December 29th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
The popular mobile photo sharing social network Instagram has finally revealed the list of the most-photographed sites in the world. Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport was ranked as the top posted photo on Instagram which is instersting since the city also has the most number of Facebook users than any other place in the world. Su...
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Canadian Firm Bnotions Creates Social Gaming Startup Harth Labs
By: Kevin Green | December 27th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Canadian technology company Bnotions has recently announced the launch a new Canadian social gaming startup called Harth Labs. The venture gained public access along with its first game title: Say What? The first game from Harth Labs is...
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Netflix is Planning to add Social Sharing to its Service in 2013
By: Kevin Green | December 27th, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
Online streaming content provider, Netflix, has acknowledged to Washington based politic journal, Talking Points Memo, that social sharing features will be released to users based in the United States in 2013. However, the precursor for the popular website to do this will be for President Obama to sign a bill that makes sharing information abou...
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Canadian Social Search Engine Wajam Sees Exponential Growth
By: Talha Bhatti | December 26th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Canadian startup Wajam has released a new end of the year video that highlights the technology ventures many achievements in 2012. The 2012 Year in Review video claims that Wajam started off the year with several hundred people downloading the search engine every day. This number has jumped enormously and the company now has thousands of users...
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Instagram Becomes Target Of Class Action Lawsuit After Changes In Terms Of Service
By: Talha Bhatti | December 26th, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
Instagram, a photo sharing service that was recently purchased by social network Facebook, got a taste of its first civil lawsuit after the website controversially updated its service terms. After the changed made last week, many users and critics protested against what they believed was ...
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CRTC May Allow Tweeting and Texting to 911 Services in Canada
By: Jeff Stewart | December 24th, 2012 | Living, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Social Media
Since Hurricane Sandy hit New York City lots of things have changed, but the major change that was observed is the introduction of reporting emergencies to 911 through wireless communication. As a result, the residents of the city now have the facility of big iPad like screens through which they can report emergencies, if the phone lines are down due to storm or any other reason. This...
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Facebook Releases Poke App In Bid To Outdo SnapChat
By: Talha Bhatti | December 24th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
On December 21, Facebook gambled that the world was not coming to an end and released its latest mobile product, the Poke app. The app is for the iPhone and iPod Touch and mimics the ability of the popular Facebook feature available on the web version of the social network. Along with pokes, users can use the app to send videos, pictures a...
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Facebook Experiments With Major Timeline Changes Including Return To Tabs
By: Kevin Green | December 22nd, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
Mashable reported on December 21 that Facebook is once again looking to update the design of Timeline. This might come as a surprise to many who have just become accustomed to the Timeline format. The report also stated that the changes to Facebook’s Timeline were “significant” and h...
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Social TV Startup Stevie Gets $1.5 million in Series A Funding
By: Talha Bhatti | December 21st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
Tel Aviv startup Stevie announced that it has raised $1.5 million in a Series A funding round for its social media aggregator service that uses the web and mobile to deliver an awesome TV experience. The latest funding brings the total cash the company has raised to $2.1 million. The startup made public that the round was led by
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