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London Fire Brigade May Use Twitter to Receive Emergency Calls
0By: Ali Raza | December 20th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
When it comes to receiving emergency calls, British Telecom handles more than 30 million such calls during a given year. Therefore, considering the sheer volume of calls, the London Fire Brigade has started mulling over whether or not it’s “time to look at new ways for people to report emergencies quickly and efficiently and soc...
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Twitter Launches Version 4 of its Blackberry App, Boasts New Features and Refined UI
By: Ali Raza | December 20th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Social Media
In spite of the fact that the Blackberry 10 launch is not too far away now, Twitter still launched an updated version of its app for current Blackberry devices. This latest version, number 4 for Twitter’s Blackberry app includes several brand new features. As far as old features are concerned, Twitter has made them more simple, as for instance, the UI is more straightforward in this...
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Report Says Facebook is Bringing Auto Play Video Ads to The News Feed
By: Jeff Stewart | December 20th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
The Facebook team seems to be engaged into a lot of things, as the social network has continually remained in the news for different reasons. More recently, a lot of that attention has been due to Instagram, while others have been the result of adding
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DabKick Launches Real Time Media Sharing Service For Images
By: Talha Bhatti | December 19th, 2012 | Business, iOS, News, Smartphones, Social Media
DabKick went public on December 18 as it released a number features that will allow users to share images with each other from different location in real time. Balaji Krishnan, co-founder of DabKick, and his team of three developers created an app for Apple devices that runs on iOS, a website and a bookmarklet. Discussing the abilitie...
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Mark Zuckerberg Donates $500M in Facebook Stock To Charity
By: Talha Bhatti | December 19th, 2012 | News, Social Media
The Billionaire CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced on December 18 that he was donating approximately $500 million in Facebook shares to a charity located in California’s Silicon Valley. The charitable donation would be used to fund health and education initiatives. The total donation was for 18 million shares of Faceboo...
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Influitive Gets $7.3 million In Series A Funding Round
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Toronto startup Influitive has recently closed on a Series A funding round of $7.3 million that was spearheaded by Hummer Winblad and Relay Ventures. The round also featured investors that already had a ...
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Instagram Gets New Privacy Policy That Hints At Data Sharing With Facebook
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
Once Facebook bought Instagram many expected the world’s largest social network to start making changes to its new acquisition right away. Facebook took its time and has slowly started placing its stamp on the mobile photo-sharing social network. One of the latest updates is to the privacy policy of
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Is Twitter Gearing Up to Release its Own Edition of Open Graph?
By: Ali Raza | December 18th, 2012 | News, Social Media
It looks like Twitter is all geared up to make a similar move to that of rival firm, Facebook, with a source revealing that the micro-blogging website is about to release its very own edition of an Open Graph style API. The move would allow third party app developers to draw information from non-human elements of a social website such as photos, apps and e...
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Facebook Confirms it is Planning to Monetize Instagram
By: Jeff Stewart | December 17th, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
When Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this year, many people failed to understand the connection (not to mention the price paid), as they wondered how the move would enhance or change the social network. Now, after several months since the acquisition, tech observers are now sure of one thing; that Facebook...
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Rovio Entertainment Quietly Launches Beta Version of Angry Birds Star Wars for Facebook
By: Jeff Stewart | December 17th, 2012 | Android, Games, iOS, News, Smartphones, Social Media, Tablets
After releasing their famous game Angry Birds Star Wars for Android, iOS, Mac, Amazon Kindle Fire, PC, Windows 8 and Windows Phone on November 8th of this year, Rovio Entertainment has now quietly launched a beta version of this highly amusing game for famed social networking website, Facebook, where it already has more than 22.6 million fans. ...
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