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LinkedIn buys Pulse

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:48:28 +0000

The largest professional networking site is broadening its horizons, on the 18th LinkedIn announced the purchase of the mobile application Pulse, which works as an aggregator of internet content, such as news and blogs.

LinkedIn paid 90 million dollars for the application that emerged from an academic project by Ankit and Akshay in 2010 at Stanford University and was currently held by the California company Alphonso Labs.

The amount will be paid 90% in shares and 10% in cash, the social network said, according to it, Pulse has more than 30 million users from around 190 countries and distributes content from more than 750 publishers.

Companies and Social Networks

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:51:56 +0000

A survey carried out by Scup.Ideias showed the impact Brazilian companies experienced from social media, the study was based on Facebook and Twitter. The survey showed the use of social networks to reduce complaints filed with PROCON, as well as to maintain an image of companies’ commitment to consumers, based on their response time through social networks, which, believe me, is surprising, but disappointing.

Companies’ average response time is three hours, with 91% of the companies surveyed seeking to respond immediately when questioned by consumers, but when it comes to solving the problem they’re not so effective, and thus don’t meet expectations for their service.

Get to know Facebook Home

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:42:23 +0000

On April 04 (last week), the launch event took place for Facebook’s new functionality called “Home”. This new feature was presented by Mark Zunckerberg himself, the functionality is available for smartphones running the Android operating system.

With the aim of turning any phone into a personalized device on the social network, Home will use the phone’s home screen as the Facebook homepage, overlaying the other applications on your device, so when you turn on your device you’ll be connected to Facebook.

The viral Harlem Shake

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:21:56 +0000

The viral hit of the moment has already reached 1 billion views in 40 days, the number of views wasn’t achieved with just one posted video, but through scenes from other videos, according to the company Visible Measures, just the ten most popular versions of “Harlem Shake” account for a total of 336 million views.

However, this viral hit ended up causing some trouble, for example, at a mining company in Australia 15 miners were fired after posting a video of the dance during working hours and at their workplace. Here in Brazil, in Goiânia, a school suspended students who made the Harlem Shake video in the bathroom. However, some companies joined the trend and got everyone dancing, among them NASA and Facebook.