Pinterest president Tim Kendall, who has since joining in 2012 overseen the growth of the startup’s advertising business and launch of a wide array of ad products, is leaving the company at the end of the year. Kendall oversaw the company&#... Pinterest business lead Tim Kendall is leaving the companyThis entry was posted in Social Startups TC and tagged pinterest on November 30, 2017 by Matthew Lynley
Twitter is rolling out its “Lite” version, after a successful trial in the Philippines. The Android app will become available in two dozen countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Not too different fro... Twitter Lite with lower data usage becomes available in 24 ...This entry was posted in Social and tagged social media on November 30, 2017 by Katie Roof
Google’s smart speaker got a little smarter this week, with the addition of a multitasking feature. The new capability makes it possible for the device to accomplish two different missions at the same time. It was rolled out with little fan... Google Home learns how to multitaskThis entry was posted in Gadgets TC and tagged google on November 30, 2017 by Brian Heater
Google Assistant is about to get a bit more home-savvy. The voice assistant will be gaining local discovery skills that will help you locate home services nearby. The company specifically detailed that Assistant would be gaining insights to help ... Google Assistant can now help you find a plumber and ...This entry was posted in Gadgets TC and tagged google on November 30, 2017 by Lucas Matney
Facebook has been under fire for its practices and policies that enable advertisers to exclude “multicultural affinity” groups from the audiences they reach via the social network. Now, in light of a ProPublica investigation and press... Facebook will temporarily disable a tool that lets advertisers exclude ...This entry was posted in advertising Advertising Tech Diversity Social TC and tagged facebook on November 30, 2017 by Megan Rose Dickey
Google might fold Nest back into the Google, well, fold. The company is considering integrating Nest, which is a separate company under mutual parent Alphabet at the moment, back into Google’s hardware business. The re-integration, first re... Google might bring Nest back into its own hardware businessThis entry was posted in Alphabet Android Gadgets hardware TC world wide web and tagged google on November 30, 2017 by Darrell Etherington
Last month, Microsoft announced its intentions to bring its Edge Browser to iOS and Android, as it works to broaden its reach on third-party mobile devices. After being made available in preview form for roughly a month, the app officially hits i... Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available for Android and iOSThis entry was posted in Android Apps iOS Microsoft Mobile on November 30, 2017 by Brian Heater
If you’ve stopped paying attention to LG in the last couple of years, you’ll learn everything you need to know from the first paragraph of its latest press release that highlights a “sweeping realignment to better address the ch... LG shakes up its struggling mobile division with new top ...This entry was posted in hardware LG Mobile on November 30, 2017 by Brian Heater
Farmers Business Network has raised $110 million in new venture funding to support a business that may sound boring to some Silicon Valley technologists but which appears to have addressed a very real need: it’s a social network for farmers... Farmers Business Network just raked in a whopping $110 million ...This entry was posted in Social TC Venture Capital on November 30, 2017 by Connie Loizos
Instagram announced this morning that it now has 25 million active business profiles, up from 15 million in July. The company throws out a lot of different statistics (back in September it said it had 800 million monthly active users, 500 million... There are now 25M active business profiles on InstagramThis entry was posted in Advertising Tech Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook instagram on November 30, 2017 by Anthony Ha