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Amazon Challenges Apple & Google With In-App Purchase Scheme

Amazon Challenges Apple & Google With In-App Purchase Scheme

In a bid to challenge Apple and Google’s app stores, Amazon is piloting a new service which allows users to make purchases through mobile applications, The service, which Amazon has been piloting for around a month, will allow users to make both subscriptions and in-app purchases…

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Tumblr Latest To Add Facebook Timeline But Will Others Follow Suit?

Tumblr Latest To Add Facebook Timeline But Will Others Follow Suit?

With other 20.4 billion posts, 50.3 million blogs and 55.75 million posts made today (and at time of writing), microblogging site Tumblr can expect to increase its popularity with its new integration with Facebook Timeline…

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Facebook Discussion Forum App Goes Premium; Adds Google Analytics To Improvements

Facebook Discussion Forum App Goes Premium; Adds Google Analytics To Improvements

After Facebook removed their discussions pages late last year, a new solution presented itself in the form of Forum for Pages, an app which allows pages to host their own discussion forums. It was a handy way for brand pages who have a large community…

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How Twitter & Google Would Have Looked If They Were Made in the 80s [Video]

How Twitter & Google Would Have Looked If They Were Made in the 80s [Video]

Of the many social media questions you’ve probably asked yourself in recent times, the question “what would Twitter look like if it was invented in the 80s?” probably would be at the very bottom of the list. That hasn’t stopped one site creating what popular online products would have looked like in the 80s and 90s…

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Google Goes All Out For April Fools Day; Kangaroo Street View, Gmail Tap & 8-Bit Maps

Google Goes All Out For April Fools Day; Kangaroo Street View, Gmail Tap & 8-Bit Maps

Since it’s April 1st, today has become less about pulling pranks and more about coming up with silly ideas that would never see the light of day. Not that we’re complaining though, so long as they’re funny, we’re more than happy to indulge the silliness, and one company that seems to embrace this year after year is Google…

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25 Unmissable Social Media Articles Worth Reading This Weekend

25 Unmissable Social Media Articles Worth Reading This Weekend

Every week, we have a look at some of the biggest social media stories that are out there, sift through the thousands of articles on offer and bring you 25 stories that you simply have to read. These are never breaking news stories but rather some of the deepest thinkers and smartest minds from the [...]

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Google Maps Journey Planner Now Factors In Real Time Traffic

Google Maps Journey Planner Now Factors In Real Time Traffic

Google Maps already has a feature which shows you exactly how good/bad traffic is in a particular area, but now they’ve allowed it to highlight just how long it will take you to reach a destination by factoring in both live and historical traffic data…

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Apple & Amazon Dominate App Revenue Intake; Leaves Google In The Dust

Apple & Amazon Dominate App Revenue Intake; Leaves Google In The Dust

Here’s an interesting discovery from mobile analytics firm Flurry, it turns out that when you compare the revenue earned by Apple’s iTunes app store to other competitors, it’s Amazon’s App Store and not Google’s that’s comes closest to matching it…

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Is Facebook Finally Updating Its Search Bar?

Is Facebook Finally Updating Its Search Bar?

At the beginning of February, Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo of his desk with a sign with the motto “Stay Focused & Keep Shipping” located beside his laptop. However, what what stood out after further inspection was that on Zuckerberg’s laptop, the search bar on the Facebook page was much larger…

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Google To Introduce New Revenue Model For Online Publishers

Google To Introduce New Revenue Model For Online Publishers

Google has been announcing more and more updates across its products this week, but this latest update comes not from the company itself, but from one of their partners in their new venture.Adweek.com are today reporting that Google are releasing a new product called “Google Customer Surveys”, which may help…

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