Archive | June 13th, 2012

Google Will Update Chrome For Apple’s New Retina Displays, Already Available In Canary Build

Posted on 13 June 2012

Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Retina display definitely pushes the idea of what a modern screen should look like forward, but it also means developers will have to adapt their apps to these high resolutions to make sure their apps don’t look bad. During its announcement earlier this week, Apple said that both Adobe and Autodesk were already working Retina-optimized versions of their products (though both now say that it will still be a while before their software will be ready). It looks like Google will be a bit faster.

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Kleiner Perkins Files Legal Response To Gender Discrimination Suit, Denies “Each And Every Material Allegation”

Posted on 13 June 2012

Kleiner Perkins today filed its official legal response to the gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit that one of its partners, Ellen Pao, filed against the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm last month.

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Soundcloud Turns Up As An Expanded Tweet Partner For Audio

Posted on 13 June 2012

SoundCloud just revealed itself as an expanded tweets partner . SoundCloud’s HTML5 widget will show up in tweets that contain a SoundCloud url. This means that Twitter cards will display a summary of SoundCloud sounds right inside a tweet allowing anyone to follow both the Soundcloud platform and any Soundcloud content creator directly within the expanded Tweet

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Apple’s Passbook Could Be A Platform, Not Just Another Mobile Payments Rival

Posted on 13 June 2012

At this week’s WWDC, Apple introduced a new application called “Passbook,” meant to function as an organizer for all your passes.

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‘Facebook Exchange’ retargeting system will bring intent-based ads to the site

Posted on 13 June 2012

Facebook is testing a new advertising system that will allow third-party platforms to place retargeting ads on Facebook after users visit external websites marked with cookies, according to TechCrunch . The program, called Facebook Exchange, could bring a large influx of new inventory to the social network and give Facebook the intent-based targeting data it previously lacked

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Facebook Exchange: A New Way For Advertisers To Target Specific Users With Real-Time Bid Ads

Posted on 13 June 2012

Facebook is testing and will soon launch Facebook Exchange, a real-time bidding ad system where visitors to third-party websites are marked with a cookie, and can then be shown real-time bid ads related to their web browsing when they return to Facebook. This retargeting option could be a huge money maker for Facebook as it will allow for more relevant direct advertising — for example a travel site could serve ads about a flight to Hawaii to someone who almost bought a flight on their site. Advertisers might pay big premiums for highly-accurate targeting.

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Twitter Launches Expanded Tweets, Letting You Read News, Check Out Images, And Watch Video Inline

Posted on 13 June 2012

On the Twitter blog today , the company announced a new way that users will be able to get access to an expanded array of content from partners. The latest new innovation, Expanded Tweets, will let users check out content directly from certain partners, without having to leave its web site. News partners like the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC’s Breaking News, San Francisco Chronicle, Der Speigel, and TIME will now let users see more content directly within their Tweets, without having to click through to their websites.

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Another Revenue Stream For Flurry As It Works With Activision To Publish Mobile Games

Posted on 13 June 2012

So very much data. And what to do with all of it? San Francisco’s Flurry has its mobile analytics in 190,000 apps on Android and iOS.

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Updated My Xbox Live App Brings Android Into The Mix, Adds iPhone-Only Remote Control Feature

Posted on 13 June 2012

Microsoft threw some of us for a loop when they launched the Metro-fied My Xbox Live app for iOS late last year , as it was the first time Xbox Live support had officially made it to any mobile platform aside from Windows Phone. Now, iOS is no longer alone in that respect — Android users can finally join in the fun, though that fun is currently limited to poking around their Xbox Live profiles, sending messages to friends, and decking out their avatar in silly digital clothing

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Facebook prompts admins to re-engage with neglected pages

Posted on 13 June 2012

As part of a continued effort to increase engagement across the site, Facebook has begun emailing some page owners who have not visited or made posts to their pages a while.

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