..Where are the CEOs? According to a new study, fully two-thirds of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 have no personal social media presence at all. And of the ones who do participate in social media, two-thirds use only one of the...more
..Is Tumblr trendier? A survey released by Tumblr says the users of that social media platform have higher average incomes than users of Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, and a report from Adobe says that this translates into...more
9/19/2014
/ Facebook ,
Google ,
Joint Venture ,
Online Videos ,
Pinterest ,
Privacy Laws ,
Software ,
Software Developers ,
Square ,
Tumblr ,
Twitter
..Disappearing ink. Facebook is testing, for a small group of users, a feature that will permit a user to schedule a post for automatic deletion after a specified period of time. It seems that the period can range from an...more
..What’s not to like? The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that an employee’s Facebook “like” approving of another employee’s statements about their employer may constitute “concerted activity” under federal labor...more
..Going mainstream. For the first time, both Twitter and Facebook are seeing significant growth in online advertising placed by major companies for brands such as Heineken, Tide, McDonald’s, and Charmin. Major consumer...more
8/1/2014
/ Advertising ,
Facebook ,
Judges ,
Juror ,
Law Enforcement ,
Manufacturers ,
Mobile Devices ,
Online Advertisements ,
Retailers ,
Social Networks ,
Twitter
“Web scraping” or “web harvesting”—the practice of extracting large amounts of data from publicly available websites using automated “bots” or “spiders”—accounted for 18% of site visitors and 23% of all Internet traffic in...more
7/22/2014
/ Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ,
Contract Disputes ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Craigslist ,
Data Mining ,
Electronic Spiders ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Internet ,
Popular ,
Trespass ,
Web Scraping ,
Websites
..The average millennial checks his or her smartphone 45 times a day and learns about news online primarily through Facebook and Twitter, according to a new survey. Search engines and email, the “more traditional” venues,...more
..Lately, when Facebook has wanted to increase its users’ engagement on its site, it has turned to taking out ads—on Facebook. The theme is “Where will your friends take you?”...more