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Message Systems has announced that it has renewed its relationship with Facebook. Message Systems develops software that powers complex email, text and cross-channel operations. Facebook will continuing using the Momentum platform for its own messaging products. Working together since 2009, this is the first time the companies have announced their partnership publicly…

The term “glassholes” almost got an entirely new meaning today, as the first porn app for Google Glass was released. And was banned almost as quickly.
Porn company Mikandi (NSFW, in case you couldn’t guess), which calls itself the world’s top app store for porn, released “Tits and Glass” this morning…

It’s been long rumored that Apple is working on a smart iWatch, and another clue has surfaced to strengthen the case for its possible debut
The company was recently awarded a patent — which was initially filed in January — for a curved battery for electronic devices. Because a curved battery wouldn’t necessarily be needed for an iPhone or iPad, it’s easy for one to assume it’s for another portable device — one with a curvature in its shape…

Ijad Madisch started ResearchGate in 2008 to change the scientific method, and depending on where you sit, that either is or isn’t as ambitious as it sounds. Madisch isn’t on a crusade to overturn the techniques scientists use to investigate and systematically observe phenomena, so much as the tools…

Well that didn’t take long.
Today Vine, Twitter’s 6-second mobile video recording application, was released to the Google Play store for Android users to download and start creating their own short masterpieces.
Within minutes of the announcement of Vine’s release, Samsung Mobile came out with this awesome multi-layer vine to celebrate the release…and they crushed it…

Runa Capital, the very active Russian venture capital firm, has invested $3 million in what it describes as a “very profitable” mobile browser games maker, called Playtox.
The proceeds from the Series A round of financing will be used to introduce Playtox’s massively multiplayer online (MMO) mobile browser gaming titles to the rest of the world (after focusing on Russia and CIS countries initially), including the US and a number of emerging markets…

Facebook has begun testing the option to geo-target Promoted Posts, even if the original post to fans was not geo-targeted. The targeting option was discovered by social marketer, Rich Tucker.

This additional geo-targeting feature may be helpful to marketers that have chosen to promote a post, but have not found success with the initial targeted audience…

It’s hard to believe that there are still features LinkedIn hasn’t revamped this year, but the list will be that much smaller following the company’s latest update. This week LinkedIn introduced a new, simplified look for Who’s Viewed Your Profile — the section of its site that gives you a comprehensive list of the people who have recently visited your profile…

Brands are spending more on Facebook than any other social network as found by BI Intelligence, a branch of Business Insider research. The Technorati Media’s 2013 Digital Influence Report has found that 57 percent of social media budgets are allocated toward Facebook with YouTube and Twitter only receiving 13 percent…

Not all tweets are created equal.
Celebrities are often paid up to six figures to send a single sponsored message. The Huffington Post put together a breakdown of how much exactly 18 different celebrities get paid to tweet.
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Facebook has announced its plans to move members of its engineering, sales, marketing, communications, and design teams into a 100,000-square-foot office in New York City.
The new space at 770 Broadway in Manhattan is nearly twice the size of the company’s current offices at 335 Madison Avenue and will take up two floors of an existing building that also houses AOL…