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Facebook Launches New Wordpress Tool

Facebook Launches New WordPress Tool

06/14/2012 by  social media council

Facebook announced sweeping integrations for WordPress.org and WordPress.com VIP users on Tuesday morning — allowing you to add your blog content to the social network in one click. The integrations are accessible through a Facebook for WordPress plugin (available here) and allow bloggers and administrators of WordPress-based sites to cross-publish content to WordPress, their own Facebook Timelines [...]

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Facebook smartphone

Facebook May be Developing a Smartphone for Release Next Year

05/29/2012 by  social media council

According to a report in the New York Times, employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year. These people spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardising their employment or relationships with Facebook. One engineer [...]

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Facebook Release Management App for Brand Pages

05/23/2012 by  social media council

Facebook unveiled its new app on Monday that lets you manage your branded Facebook page from your iPhone. The app will come in handy for those who manage several Pages or don’t want to have the Facebook app (logged in to a personal account) installed on a work device. If you’re the manager of a Page, be it [...]

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Honda & Pinterest

Honda Uses Pinterest to Drive More Interest

05/21/2012 by  James Baron

As Pinterest’s popularity grows and grows, so do brands’ involvement in the site. Car giant Honda has now decided to harness the power of Pinterest to drive interest for its website and the new Honda CR-V, with a campaign called Pintermission. Vehicle Drive Honda is singling out active Pinterest users and handing some of them $500 [...]

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As Facebook’s IPO is Announced, Who Are the Key Players?

05/18/2012 by  SMCE

After four months of paperwork, hype and speculation, the last piece of the Facebook IPO is in place: Facebook said it has priced its IPO at $38 a share. At that price, Facebook’s IPO will raise $16 billion, making it the largest tech IPO in history. It’s the third largest U.S. IPO ever, trailing only the [...]

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Mobile payments in the UK

iZettle, Europe’s rival to Square, Checks Out Mobile Payments In The UK

 by  social media council

Swedish payments startup iZettle has made its most significant move since coming out of beta last year, with a pilot program to enter the potentially huge British market. British Market Until now the company, billed as Europe’s equivalent to Square, has so far only made its product — a free plug-in dongle and app that let small merchants [...]

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Facebook’s Number One Priority is Mobile App

05/15/2012 by  social media council

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has told would be investors that making the Facebook Mobile App a more streamline and effective product is his main priority at the moment. With more people than ever using smartphones and accessing sites like Facebook on them, the big question is how the company can make more money with advertising on mobile. Mobile [...]

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Hospital

Hospital to Tweet Brain Surgery Live and Post Pictures on Pinterest

05/08/2012 by  James Baron

Having already made history with the worlds first live tweeted open heart surgery, surgeons at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Hospital are about to bring social media back into the operation theater. Live Theater This time round we will be able to watch an operation on the brain called a  brain tumor resection, which will remove a tumor and [...]

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Visa Europe Prepares for V.me Digital Wallet Launch in Autumn

05/03/2012 by  James Baron

Visa Europe says it will launch its V.me digital wallet to an initial group of users in the UK, Spain and France this autumn. Digital Wallet Visa has announced its plans to release a wallet that stores visa and non-visa accounts, enabling users to pay for transaction online and in person through their computers and [...]

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Filckr and Pinterest

Pinterest Teams Up With Flickr to Make Photo Attribution Easier

05/02/2012 by  James Baron

Pinterest’s popularity has skyrocketed in the past few months as more users upload and post pictures to their virtual pin boards. However, not all pictures are properly attributed to their rightful owners. Flickr announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with social networking site Pinterest to make sure images posted from the popular photo-sharing site are always properly attributed. [...]

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New paytag mobilephone sticker

Barclays Launches New PayTag Mobile Phone Sticker

 by  James Baron

Last week Barclaycard announced the launch of PayTag, a new smart sticker that fixes to mobile phones and allows consumers to pay for goods.  Mobile Banking This kind of technology has been talked about for a while now and many articles have been written about the inevitable explosion of mobile banking. One recent study by [...]

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New Organ Donor Option to Timeline

Facebook Unveils New Organ Donor Option to Timeline

05/01/2012 by  James Baron

Facebook organ donor option could save millions of lives around the World. Choice It was recently hinted at and now Facebook  have unveiled a new organ donor status option for Timeline, a move designed to help more than 114,000 people in the U.S. and millions more around the world who are waiting for a life-saving heart, [...]

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