Zoobe Wants To Cute-Ify Your Voice Messages With Animated 3D Cartoon Avatars + MORE

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Last month, LinkedIn revealed plans to begin testing mobile ads for its iPhone and Android applications. Though the social network announced strong first-quarter revenues, up 72 percent from a year earlier, the social network has seen its share price fall more than 10 percent after disappointing revenue forecasts for second quarter…

Do you know how to measure your return on investment (ROI) on Facebook ads? Do you know how to tell if your Facebook ad is accomplishing your objective? In this article, I’ll cover what Facebook conversion tracking and offsite pixels are, why they matter and how to start tracking the conversions of your Facebook ads […

Data is essential for understanding how your company is performing on social media networks, and Sprout Social is making it even easier for your business to track those numbers. Our social media management tool has several types of reports at your disposal for gathering and interpreting analytics about the profiles operated by your brand and your employees…

Today was a big money day for startup funding — and post-startup growth-stage and late-stage fund funding.
Online radio startup TuneIn closed $25M round of funding
TuneIn, the terrestrial streaming radio service, has closed a new $25 million round of funding, the company announced today.
TuneIn aggregates over 70,000 live radio stations (that are available to stream online) and 2 million on-demand audio programs (podcasts, concerts, interviews, etc…

Facebook today announced the launch of verified pages and profiles, which will make it easier for users to find official fan pages and accounts for top brands, celebrities, government officials and other public figures.
Like on Twitter, verified accounts on Facebook will be denoted with a small blue icon with a checkmark in it…

This week, Twitter rolled out updates to its Android and iPhone apps that make mobile tweeting more seamless than ever.
Here’s a quick rundown of the mobile updates.
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Digital note-taking service Evernote was forced to reset its 50 million-plus users’ passwords after suffering an unauthorized breach on March 2. Today, less than three months on from that incident, it is beefing up account security measures with three new measures, including two-factor authentication, which will initially go live to its premium users…

Facebook has begun to survey some users about how interested they are in the page posts that appear in their feeds, according to AllFacebook.
A “Facebook Feedback” module sits below some posts, asking “How interesting is this story to you?” and offering a five-star rating scale…

Batman Arkham is this week’s top gaining page in the People Talking About This metric for games and toys pages. The video game saw an increase of 188,083 engagements, increasing to over 202,000 in total PTAT.
At No. 2, EA Sports FIFA gained 170,632 additional engagements this week. With an increase of 35,546 engagements, League of Legends rounds out the top 10…

A new kind of artificial heart that combines synthetic and biological materials as well as sensors and software to detect a patient’s level of exertion and adjust output accordingly is to be tested in patients at four cardiac surgery centers in Europe and the Middle East
If the “bioprosthetic” device, made by the Paris-based Carmat, proves to be safe and effective, it could be given to patients waiting for a heart transplant…

In response to Facebook has shared an explanation of how it defines hate speech and harmful content, as well as its plans to address the issues of cruel and insensitive content on the site, following challenges from Women, Action and The Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and a number of activists and organizations calling on the social network to take action against groups, pages and images that condone or encourage rape or domestic violence…

I had the pleasure of listening to Mary Meeker (Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers) unveil her 2013 Internet Trends research yesterday at the D11 conference put on by All Things Digital.
Her presentation predicts the rise of wearable technology like Google Glass, Nike’s Fuelband, the fabled Apple iWatch, and others…

The mobile messaging space is exploding with ever more colourful ways to communicate, augmenting the basics of text and voice — whether that’s stickers, one-to-many video chats or the ability to leave random missives for strangers. Zoobe, a Berlin-based startup, has another cutesy option to add to the pile: cartoon avatars that animate your voice message so you can ramp up the kawaii…