On Sunday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that a slew of top executives had chosen to leave the company. Executive departures aren’t all that surprising at Twitter any more as the company tries to figure out what it essentially wants to be as it continues to grow. As the roadmap changes, so too often does the executive layer of the company. Here are a few high-profile departures… Read MoreA Brief History Of Twitter’s Executive Departures
On Sunday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that a slew of top executives had chosen to leave the company. Executive departures aren’t all that surprising at Twitter any more as the company tries to figure out what it essentially wants to be as it continues to grow. As the roadmap changes, so too often does the executive layer of the company. Here are a few high-profile departures… Read More
For Facebook, ads are still kind when it comes to talking about the bottom line, and paramount to that success are the platforms that allow the company to serve its personalized ads across the web. Audience Network, which was previously only available in mobile apps, has been Facebook’s main tool in the expanding its ad network’s reach.
Action camera maker GoPro is integrating with Periscope, the livestreaming app from Twitter. Owners of the GoPro HERO4 cameras will be able to broadcast their adventures directly to Periscope. As soon as the GoPro is paired to an iPhone, it will recognize the Periscope app and let users record and share their surroundings with a live audience. (The GoPro will still be able to record the videos… 
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey today announced a new CMO for the company — Leslie Berland, who joins from American Express. The confirmation comes two days after her name first came up in connection with the role, amid a number of other big executive changes at the company. Matching some of the current internal turmoil at the company, Twitter has been having a lot of problems in… 
Google is decoupling Google+ from yet another core product after it revealed that it would drop the requirement to have an account with the social network from Google Play Games services. 
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has confirmed the departures of Twitter execs, who oversaw the product, engineering, media and HR teams. Was really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later this week, but want to set the record straight now: pic.twitter.com/PcpRyTzOlW — Jack (@jack) January 25, 2016 In a statement, posted to Twitter on Sunday, Dorsey wrote: “I’m sad… 
Canvs is a startup measuring emotion on social media, but CEO Jared Feldman insisted that we shouldn’t think of it as a social sentiment company. He said that’s because existing tools for measuring sentiment have earned something of a bad reputation. Where those tools are usually limited to classifying social media posts as good, bad or neutral, Canvs can classify a statement into… 
How did Facebook go from 1 billion to 8 billion videos views per day in 18 months without the whole server farm catching fire? It’s called SVE, short for streaming video engine. SVE lets Facebook slice videos into little chunks, cutting the delay from upload to viewing by 10X. And to ensure the next generation of 360 and virtual reality videos load fast too, it’s invented and… 
Facebook wasn’t built for sports. Its filtered, non-chronological News Feed made it tough to follow real-time chatter about the game. Twitter’s feed is great for it. But out of Facebook’s 1.55 billion users, there are a LOT of rabid sports fans who aren’t on Twitter. Facebook’s not actually trying to steal Twitter’s hardcore users as much as box it out of…