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25 Unmissable Social Media Articles To Read This Weekend – 20th May

As always, we round up 25 of the biggest stories relating to the world of social media that you have to read, featuring a mixture …

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Social media by the numbers: the latest site figures

A bumper collection of social media stats for all the social media geekery your heart desires. Check out stats for Foursqure, LinkedIn, Flipboard, Pinterest and …

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Twitter To Roll Out Tailored Suggestions For Users

Twitter has been making numerous changes to its main site and making it more about content discovery and bring people away from third-party apps and …

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Smartphone Teaser Trailers Show Contrasting Fortunes Of Samsung & RIM

Smartphone Teaser Trailers Show Contrasting Fortunes Of Samsung & RIM

It’s been a busy week for smartphone manufacturers as Samsung announced its new Galaxy S III and RIM unveiled its Blackberry 10 at its keynote conference. Both manufactures have released trailers and they highlight how different their aims are…

Google Analytics Adds Trackback To Social Reports

Google Analytics Adds Trackback To Social Reports

Back in late March, Google Analytics introduced social reports to its services. With it, you could see how much traffic social media brought and which sites visitors came from. It’s probably worth reminding people that this feature exists since it took a while for it to finally emerge, but not only has it rolled out to everyone…

Foursquare Slowly Transforms Into A Search Engine With New History Option

Foursquare Slowly Transforms Into A Search Engine With New History Option

Not content with just being a place for users to just check-in and collect badges, Foursquare has launched a new search feature which will go a long way into making Foursquare more than just a mobile app. The history page now allows users to search through all their previous check-ins from the time they joined the site…

Here’s why Pinterest is winning this week

Here’s why Pinterest is winning this week

Many were proclaiming trouble for Pinterest when the site started to show a drop in users. Well, it has been quite a week for them which shows the insanity of making long term predictions about the end of the site at the first sign of a dip. It was inevitable that a dip would occur [...]

Facebook’s Hoping Growth Prospects Will Mean Heavy Investment As IPO Roadshow Begins

Facebook’s Hoping Growth Prospects Will Mean Heavy Investment As IPO Roadshow Begins

As the scheduled date to its IPO looms ever closer, Facebook is hoping that the company’s growth prospects will persuade investors to pay 99 times earnings for its initial public offering. If this happens, it would make it a higher multiple than 99 per cent of companies…

Forbes Brazil Launches In Style With Helicopter Deliveries

Forbes Brazil Launches In Style With Helicopter Deliveries

How does your magazine grab the attention of high-fliers and business people who barely have the time to look around? Do what Forbes did and deliver it to them via helicopter. Forbes also launched a series of infographic print ads that show what the world would be like if certain individuals didn’t exist…

LinkedIn Announce 101% Increase In Revenue For Q1; Generates $188.5 Million

LinkedIn Announce 101% Increase In Revenue For Q1; Generates $188.5 Million

Professional social media site LinkedIn has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2012, revealing that its revenue had increased by 101 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2011. This makes it the seventh straight quarter where the company has experienced an increase greater than 100 per cent year-over-year growth…

Funny Friday: The Augmented Reality Coffee Table

Funny Friday: The Augmented Reality Coffee Table

Possibly the most impressive ‘funny friday’ we’ve had so far. To put it in this category might downplay the impressive build and tech behind this project, but it’s just crazy enough to get your Friday off to a good start. Watch in amazement.

Smartphone Review: Sony Xperia S [Video]

Smartphone Review: Sony Xperia S [Video]

The Xperia S marks an important moment for Sony as it’s the first product to be developed under the new Sony Mobile division. As it split from Ericsson a few months ago, Sony needs a product that would show that everything is ok as well as mount a challenge against the smartphone hierarchy of Samsung and Apple. But now that it’s going it alone, does it do enough to make its former partnership with Ericsson a distant memory?

Google Switches Advertising Focus To Maps By Launching New Site

Google Switches Advertising Focus To Maps By Launching New Site

Tying in with the numerous additions Google has made to its Maps product, the search engine giant is focusing in on convincing small businesses to make better use of Maps. Following the same train of thought that created their mobile playbook, Google has started another campaign with a new…