Pinterest Teams With Brands for 'More Useful' Pins

Pinterest today launched a new branding function for products, recipes, and movies.

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Pinterest Tacks On Brand-Friendly Features

Pinterest on Monday announced new features and relationships with brands that will bring more functionality to its pins. The features, according to the social bookmarking company, will make the pins more "useful." Pinterest introduced its new features in a Monday blog post. Pins now show more information, so users have more than photos to help them determine interest.

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Google vows to integrate Google Voice into Hangouts

When Google unveiled its new Hangouts service last week, keen observers noted that there was a glaring omission in the company’s effort to cobble together all its messaging services onto one platform: Google Voice. But a new Google+ post from Google director of real-time communications Nikhyl Singhal suggests that Hangouts users won’t have to wait for Voice much longer. Specifically, Singhal …

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Android has become a hedge against Microsoft and Windows

HP SlateBook x2 is both an Android tablet and laptop. The laptop part is an Android first for HP. (Credit: Hewlett-Packard) Hewlett-Packard rolled out another Android device this week. This could become a pattern as PC makers hedge against a world that's less about Microsoft and more about Google. On Tuesday, the largest PC maker in the world — a dubious distinction these days — added a laptop …

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YouTube Bets Big on Laughs with Its First-Ever “Comedy Week”

Does your idea of humor include a cooking show that teaches you how to order 75 fast-food hamburgers and turn them into a truly epic lasagna? If so, you’ve got company: the comedy team behind “Epic Meal Time” has 4.7 million YouTube subscribers. This week, with its first ever Comedy Week, running from May 19 to 25, YouTube is setting out to make sure that number climbs. “We have amazing YouTube …

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Groupon Reports in line 1Q Loss

Groupon Inc. reported a loss per share of 1 cent in the first quarter of 2013, which came in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate.

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Delete Foursquare check-ins using the Android, iOS app

For those check-ins you end up regretting. Originally posted at How To

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Is Twitter Getting Down To Business?

With over 200 million active users and 400 million Tweets per day, Twitter is much more than the brand that established micro-blogging or, as I like to call it, hyper-texting. To put it mildly, Twitter has established itself as a critical element of our modern lifestyles.

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Facebook, One Year Later: What Really Happened in the Biggest IPO Flop Ever

Reuters Uma Swaminathan tuned the television set in the living room of her ranch style home in the suburbs of East Brunswick, N.J. to CNBC. It was 9:00 a.m. on May 18, 2012, a day the retired schoolteacher …

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LinkedIn looks to build on its impressive resume

LinkedIn’s leaders are hoping to establish the website as an integral part of the global economy in the next decade. Bloomberg News

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