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One hour ago, Marissa Mayer opened up her own Tumblr account to announce that they have reached an agreement to acquire the blogging site for $1.1 billion. Tumblr gets around 1 billion views a month, with 900 new posts per second and more of half the users use the mobile app. Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO said [...]

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American Airlines is giving those with a social media presence an opportunity to get a free pass to their Admirals Club lounge. Klout, one of many social media measurement tools, allows users to get a score based on your online reach. Contributing factors include the number of networks you’re signed up to, the amount of [...]

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Thorsten Heins, the Chief Executive at BlackBerry has announced that in his opinion tablet devices like the iPad will become obsolete. “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore…Tablets themselves are not a good business model.” While the BlackBerry tablet device was underpowered and poorly reviewed, Samsung, Apple [...]

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Written by Ian Brooks I had the pleasure of listening to Facebook’s Global Head of Travel, Lee McCabe, talking about their ambitions in the travel sector with their “Nearby” service that runs off the Facebook App. As you can see from the image on my phone I did a local search for hotels close to [...]

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I’ve been reading tweets and the occasional headline about a thing called ‘Bitcoin’ and I largely ignored them. While I understood it was a new thing in online currency, I didn’t give it much time as a news topic. However, it appears that people are getting very excited about the scheme. Bitcoin is unlike other [...]

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As LinkedIn becomes more and more used as an everyday social network, the professionally-aimed site has announced that they will be adding a ‘mention’ tool, similar to the already available ability on Facebook and Twitter. This will be to engage your connections in status posts and for getting your friends involved in a conversation. The [...]

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You may have noticed that since Tuesday, your friends and a few celebrities have changed their profile photos to a red square with two parallel pink lines. This is the Human Rights Campaign’s logo with a new colour change, originally blue and yellow but changed as pink is associated with love, which is what the [...]

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