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YP Rolls Out New Mobile Product For Business Owners

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The new product, ypPresence Starter , helps business owners share content with consumers, engage in social media, and more from a central location. YP said the tool connects into such sites as Google+, Yahoo Local, Yelp, and Facebook. The tool runs on iOS and Android.

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Snapchat Targets News Discovery With New Feature

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Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover. snapchat news information social media socialmedia discovery publisher publishing' READ MORE>>.

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Snapchat Targets News Discovery With Discover Feature

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Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover. publishing publisher discovery socialmedia media social information news snapchat' READ MORE>>.

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UberMedia Names VP

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Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile and desktop messaging and social media apps, is announcing this morning that it has hired Ken Rudman as its Vice President of Developer Relations. Rudman has also served at Technicolor, Overture/Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Citysearch.com.

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San Diego Meets the Xconomists: When Social Media is Not Enough

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and chat rooms on Bulletin Board Systems to Yahoo message boards, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter, and Instagram. Nowadays, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world , with more than 2 billion monthly active users.

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CHNL Ties Into Groupon, LivingSocial

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The company says its goal is to become the "Yahoo!, MSN, or Google for the social media age." CHNL's software lets users create their own "channels", incorporating content from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere, and share that out to their friends. CHNL is headed by John Wander. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

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We got into the pay-per-click space early on, when Idealab launched Goto.com, which eventually became Overture and was acquired by Yahoo. There have been changes in how people search, such as mobile devices. As mobile phones have become increasingly more usable, in a productive manner, we've seen more and more mobile traffic.