Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

LinkedIn Refresh Creates New Professional Communities for Business

LinkedIn Refresh Creates New Professional Communities for Business
A month after announcing the redesign of its Groups platform, LinkedIn unveiled Groups Experiences to build a shared space for professional communities.LinkedIn Groups RelaunchOn its blog, LinkedIn said the new platform was built from the ground up after hearing how important Groups was for its users. The improvements will bring connectivity, communications, and collaboration...
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50 Million Facebook Accounts Compromised, Is Your Business Page Safe?

50 Million Facebook Accounts Compromised, Is Your Business Page Safe?
The security breach which was discovered by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) engineers on September 25 allowed the attackers to take direct control over user accounts; around 50 million of them to be exact.The Latest Facebook Security BreachIn addition to the 50 million, Facebook also said there were another 40 million accounts which were potentially vulnerable. All said, the company logged...
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Google Launches a Dedicated Street View App

Google Launches a Dedicated Street View App
Street View is the latest Google service to get the dedicated app treatment, launching today on both iOS and Google Play. With Google’s new app you can view 360-degree panoramas, which allow you to get a better look at an outdoor space, or tour the interior of a hotel or restaurant. If you find a location that doesn’t yet have its own panorama view, you can upload your own photos...
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YouTube Launches YouTube Newswire, A Feed Dedicated to Eyewitness Video

YouTube Launches YouTube Newswire, A Feed Dedicated to Eyewitness Video
As more people turn to eyewitness video to keep up with breaking news events as they happen, YouTube has launched a site to help people follow this kind of content more closely. In partnership with social news agency Storyful, YouTube has launched YouTube Newswire — a curated feed of newsworthy eyewitness videos of the day, vetted by Storyful’s editorial team and embeddable from...
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Google Launches Google News Lab, A New Home on the Web for Reporters

Google Launches Google News Lab, A New Home on the Web for Reporters
Google announced the launch of a new site called Google News Lab, which is designed to be a home on the web for reporter resources.With this initiative, Google explains that by working directly with journalists it hope to have a lasting effect on future media:“That’s why we’ve created the News Lab, a new effort at Google to empower innovation at the intersection of technology...
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Facebook’s News Reader App, Paper, Launches Today on iOS in the US

Facebook’s News Reader App, Paper, Launches Today on iOS in the US
Facebook Creative Labs have launched their first ever product, a curated visual news reader app called Paper. If you live in the US and own an iPhone, you can download it now from the App Store. Paper is already being lauded by the tech and mobile app community, receiving rave reviews and high praise for its design and user experience.Most are saying its unlike anything Facebook...
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Google to Provide Instant Information on Over 900 Health Conditions

Google to Provide Instant Information on Over 900 Health Conditions
Google has added support for the health conditions feature of its Knowledge Graph, now providing instant information on over 900 health conditions.When you Google a health condition, like “Legionnaires’ disease”, Google will give you a snippet of information with the important details.Google worked with a team of medical doctors in curating this information, the information has...
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Supercharge Your Citation Campaigns using CitationTracker

Supercharge Your Citation Campaigns using CitationTracker
                                       This post was sponsored by BrightLocal.com.Auditing and cleaning up local directory listings is critical to performing well in local search.In fact, 55% of local experts say accurate citations are ‘critical’ to local search ranking.However,...
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Instagram Improves Direct Messaging With Threaded Convos and Enhanced Emojis

Instagram Improves Direct Messaging With Threaded Convos and Enhanced Emojis
Instagram has announced a set of improvements to its direct messaging feature, which included threaded conversations and enhanced emojis Instagram Direct has garnered 85 million monthly users since launching in 2013, but the service was never on par with direct messaging offered by competitors like Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. Today,Instagram is introducing much needed threaded...
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SEJ Wrap-Up: Top 10 Review Sites You Need to Monitor and Could Google Sway the Election?

SEJ Wrap-Up: Top 10 Review Sites You Need to Monitor and Could Google Sway the Election?
Online reviews have become an essential part of running any type of business in 2015. While traditionally an afterthought, monitoring online reviews is now a necessity, says SEJ contributor Jason Hawkins.Your first step, however, is to determine where you can find these reviews so you can monitor them. In this week’s top post, Jason presents a list of 10 of the top review sites...
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Instagram Landscape and Portrait Mode Are Here! Third-Party Apps No Longer Needed

Instagram Landscape and Portrait Mode Are Here! Third-Party Apps No Longer Needed
Instagram just introduced one of its most significant changes in recent memory — landscape and portrait modes for photos and videos. In addition to the traditional square photos, Instagram now natively allows the ability to post media in portrait and landscape orientations. This means you can post your photos and videos as they were originally shot.No more cropping videos that...
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Facebook Launches M, a Siri-Like Personal Assistant for Messenger

Facebook Launches M, a Siri-Like Personal Assistant for Messenger
Today Facebook announced its beginning a very small roll out of a digital assistant service that will live within Messenger. The service, called M, is capable of completing tasks and finding information upon request.Bangla Newspaper Blogger Template Facebook’s M calls to mind Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana, but what sets M apart is how you interact with it. While Siri and...
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