Instagram Says Ads Coming "In the Next Couple Months"
More than a year after Facebook acquired Instagram, the photo-sharing service said it’s going to start running ads. Instagram, which had already indicated that ads would show up on the service, said...
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Fortune's Most Powerful Women List Has Lots of Tech Stars, With...
Given all the focus on females in top leadership in tech recently — due to the worthy (and it is most certainly that, no matter how much some misguided people might say it is not) debate over the lack...
View ArticleAll the News That Fits in a 15-Second Segment: NowThisNews Tries Instagram,...
Vine is a good place to watch super-short videos. Instagram is a good place to see cool pictures and slightly longer videos. Are either of them good places to watch the news? NowThisNews is trying to...
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Nokia Unveils Lumia 1520, 1320 Phablets; Instagram Finally Coming to Windows...
Nokia is all about the big screens today. It announced its first Windows tablet, and now, we have the first Windows Phone phablets. At its Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi today, the Finnish phone maker...
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Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding -- $225 Million at $3.8 Billion...
According to several sources, Pinterest has completed another enormous funding, this time nabbing $225 million with late-stage investor Fidelity Investments in the lead. The new infusion of cash —...
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Explaining What It's Going to Do With All That Dough, Pinterest Unveils Stats...
Pinterest confirmed an earlier report by AllThingsD that it had raised $225 million more from investors at a valuation of $3.8 billion. This Series E round will bring the total funding to $564 million...
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Vine Adds Some Basic Editing Tools
Here comes another incremental update for Vine, Twitter’s short-form video app. The service pushed out an update on Thursday morning, allowing for slightly more control over how users make videos. The...
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Reminder: You Can't Stop Instagram Videos From Auto-Playing Anymore
Consider this your PSA for the day. Two weeks ago, Instagram quietly updated its iOS and Android apps. It seemed incremental, but one important detail was mostly glossed over: There’s no longer a way...
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AllThingsD Week in Review: Apple Freshens Up & Pinterest and Snapchat See...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Okay, deep breath. Here’s everything you need to know about Apple’s iPad-and-MacBook refresh...
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Twitter's Mobile Apps Begin to Look a Bit More Like Instagram
Continuing its trudge toward becoming a more media-centric service, Twitter on Tuesday announced a new version of its iOS and Android mobile applications, giving more prominence to photos and video in...
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Facebook's Q3: Marketers Love Us -- Teens, Slightly Less So
Facebook scored another big beat on Wednesday, as the company released its third-quarter earnings numbers to a happy investor crowd. Making money from mobile users — once considered a grim prospect for...
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The Stakes Are High for Facebook's Next Big Ad Product
Even after back-to-back quarterly wins, the heat is still on for Facebook to knock its next ad product out of the park. Take a look at the market performance Wednesday afternoon. After delivering...
View ArticleAds Appear on Instagram, Just Like Instagram Said They Would
Instagram said it was going to deliver ads to your Feed, and then it said it again. And now, here they are. Designer Michael Kors started running this ad this morning. This is a version that ran in a...
View ArticleInstagram Comes to Windows Phone
Instagram launched an app for Windows Phone on Wednesday, three and a half years after the company was founded. The new app, which already exists on iOS and Android, could help Instagram with...
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#HungryGames: The White House's Annual Turkey Pardoning Goes Social
Let’s talk turkey for a moment. For the past two decades, U.S. presidents have used Thanksgiving week to name an official “National Turkey.” And now the POTUS wants to take it online. Call it the...
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The Buzziest Social Network, According to Hip-Hop
In business and in hip-hop, your reputation is all you have. And, right now, Twitter’s rep is booming (in the rap world, at least). This according to RapStats, the latest little experiment to come out...
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Instagram Business Lead Emily White to Be Named COO of Snapchat
Emily White, the Facebook executive in charge of bringing advertising to its Instagram photo-sharing unit, is leaving to become COO of Snapchat. The move is a major talent grab by the ephemeral photo...
View ArticleInstagram to Hold NYC Event on December 12
Instagram has invited reporters to a press event in Manhattan on Dec. 12, according to reports from CNET and TechCrunch. The invitations do not specify what the event will focus on, though a recent...
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AllThingsD Week in Review: BlackBerry's Future and Predictions for Tech in 2014
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: BlackBerry interim CEO John Chen hasn’t said much since he took the reins of the once-great...
View ArticleTwitter Adds Private Photo Messaging to Mobile
As AllThingsD reported earlier this year that it would, Twitter on Tuesday launched a significant revamp of its private messaging product, adding the ability to send photos via Direct Message. Twitter...
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Video Is the Future of Social
This past spring, at the YouTube Upfronts in New York City, Google vice president Robert Kyncl stood in front of a packed audience of brand marketers and made a seemingly simple, but revelatory,...
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With Private Messaging, Instagram and Twitter Continue Their Arms Race
So Instagram introduced a version of private messaging on Thursday morning, allowing users to send photos to only one or a few of their followers at a time. And it’s a fine decision. Communication...
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Ads on Instagram Work Great, Says Instagram
We try hard at AllThingsD to ignore press releases that tout numbers without real context, or flat-out bullshit metrics. You’re welcome! But sometimes we have to note them anyway, because in some...
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Vivoom Shoots Mobile Video With Movie and TV-Like Effects
So you think you haven’t seen enough social video apps for your iPhone or iPad? Well then, today is your lucky day. There’s a new app out today called Vivoom. While you can think of it as similar in...
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Buh-Bye From AllThingsD! More Staff Highlights: Fried, Goode and "Everyone...
Like that proverbial pumpkin, at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, All Things Digital goes poof. As I noted earlier, while the archives of what we have written since April of 2007 — close to 38,000...
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