Google confirmed reports earlier this week that it has acquired Israel-based satellite-navigation startup Waze, which had been in talks with Facebook until those discussions were reportedly tabled late last month.
Google Confirms Waze Acquisition
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Mediabistro Webcast
Vine has added sound and motion to the popular microblogging website, Twitter. Learn how to bring your information to life in our Vine webcast on Wednesday, June 19 from 4-5 pm ET. In this one-hour webcast, Gemma Craven (left), EVP, New York group director at Social@Ogilvy will discuss best practices for using the visual social platform and share some of her team's successful vine videos. Register here.
"Vine: Create Quick Social Videos To Market Your Brand" Webcast
Vine has added sound and motion to the popular microblogging website, Twitter. Learn how to bring your information to life in our Vine webcast on Wednesday, June 19 from 4-5 pm ET. In this one-hour webcast, Gemma Craven (left), EVP, New York group director at Social@Ogilvy will discuss best practices for using the visual social platform and share some of her team's successful vine videos. Register here. Piccolo Automatically Sends Users Prints Of Their Photos On Facebook, Instagram
Friday seems to be a popular day for debuting Instagram applications and services, as startup Piccolo announced its beta launch, aimed at allowing users to automatically receive printed copies of their photos on Facebook and Instagram each month, as well as having those same photos sent to family or friends.
FWD.us Phone Calls Coach Recipients On What To Say, Connect Them To Their Senators
FWD.us, the political advocacy group led by Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is taking the phrase, “Call your congressman,” and putting its own high-tech stamp behind it.
OMGPOP Is History As Part Of Zynga Cuts
Draw Something developer OMGPOP, which was acquired by Zynga in March 2012 for $180 million, was wiped out as part of the layoffs announced by Zynga Monday.
REPORT: Facebook To Test Addition Of Messages To Status Update Box
According to reports, Facebook will launch a test “with a small percentage of users,” enabling those users to send private messages to friends directly via the status update box.
Facebook Global Head Of Brand Design Paul Adams Joins Startup Intercom
Facebook Global Head of Brand Design Paul Adams is leaving the social network to become head of product design at startup customer-interaction-tracking tool provider Intercom, where he will work out of the Dublin office, TechCrunch reported.
Facebook Makes Social Roulette App Go Black
In Russian Roulette, players have a one-in-six chance of losing their lives. In Social Roulette, users have a one-in-six chance of losing their Facebook accounts. That is, until Facebook took away the gun. TechCrunch reported Monday that Facebook 86′ed the data connection to Social Roulette, an application where users play and there’s a one-in-six shot that their Facebook profile will be deleted. Four hours after its Saturday launch, Facebook cut off data to the application, stating a violation of platform policies.
Facebook Matchmaking: Bang With Friends Launches IOS, Android Apps; YouShouldTotallyMeet Debuts
Facebook users tapping the social network to get, well, really social will likely be heartened by news that Bang with Friends released applications for the iOS and Android platforms, while a more subtle Facebook app, YouShouldTotallyMeet, is aimed at bringing the matchmaking process to users’ networks of friends.
Facebook (Unofficially) Lands On Google Glass
Although it’s only available to a super-select few, Facebook already has a home on Google Glass. It’s not the official Facebook application, but TechCrunch reports that recently launched photo sharing app Glass to Facebook uploads photos taken with Google Glass to users’ Facebook accounts.
The Wrong Path? Facebook Cuts Off Access To Find Friends API From Social Network’s App
Social network Path became the latest application to lose access to Facebook’s find friends application-programming interface, prohibiting Path users from accessing their Facebook friends lists and sending them invites or follow suggestions.
