The Nokia Lumia 1020′s Pro Camera app is coming to the Lumia 920, 925 and 928, too + MORE

1. Use a Facebook page to create your event and add your personal profile as a host.

Invitees have a link to see all of the other events you have created.
Invitees have a link to like your page.
Your personal profile can directly message all of the invitees (however, abuse of this feature can be seen as spam…

Facebook has added 65 new job listings on its jobs page while removing 51 listings. From the new job listings, it appears that Facebook is looking to strengthen its small business relations worldwide with significant small business listings in both Asia and Australia. It also looking for a key executive in Ireland listing a Head of Policy position…

A few prominent Facebook executives recently offloaded shares of their company, included newly-minted General Counsel Colin Stretch and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Sandberg sold 169,756 shares of Facebook stock, according to recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings, earning $4,354,971…

Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer Nanigans recently announced a round of new hires. The company has been busy recently, scooping up Antonio Garcia-Martinez from the Facebook Exchange team and expanding rapidly.
Here’s a full list of Nanigans’ recent hires:

Howard Luks, Sr…

While the newly-announced Lumia 1020 may have a superior camera to its fellow Windows Phone-powered Nokia stablemates, those of you with a Lumia 920, 925 or 928 can rejoice in the news that at least some of the new device’s imaging gold-dust will be coming your way.
Yes, as spotted by The Verge, the Pro Camera app that comes with the Lumia 1020 will be available soon for those other devices via the forthcoming ‘Amber’ software update for Lumia devices…

tWith great access comes great opportunity.
Social media can do great things for brands; it connects them with their consumer base, allows for two-way communication and spreads news faster than any other platform.
The drawback?
It puts a lot of power into the hands of the (occasionally disgruntled) consumer…

A year ago, UpTo was going to be the social network that lives in your calendar. Today, with 250,000 downloads, a million events, and a $2M series A round under his belt, the company realizes that a modernized calendar is a big enough vision on its own, thank you very much.
It’s called a pivot, and nearly every successful startup goes through one…

Did you know that more than three-quarters (78 percent) of chief marketing officers (CMOs) believe that the future of marketing is content marketing?
They’re very much practicing what they preach, too – 86 percent of business to consumer (B2C) marketers now use content marketing to engage prospects (52 percent), increase website traffic (49 percent), raise brand awareness (38 percent) and boost sales (38 percent)…

Twitter advocates often claim that the social network breaks news faster than newswires. But a study conducted by researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow found that Twitter generally followed wire services, though it did beat them sometimes.
Comparing Twitter to wire service news outlets covering 27 major news events over 77 days in 2011, the study found that Twitter led newswires eight times, whereas newswires led the social network 15 times…

After Google updated its mapping experience for iOS and Android, the company announced it will retire its older location service, Google Latitude. Although bad for consumers using the service, it gives businesses one more reason to strengthen their presence on Google+.
The location-based mobile app was developed by Google in 2009, and enabled individuals to check-in at desired locations…

J. Cole, Daft Punk and Blake Shelton have composed three of the top 10 music albums right now, according to Billboard. But how are they doing on Facebook?
Using PageData statistics, Inside Facebook compared the Facebook page performance of the musicians who have the top 10 albums in the U.S.
Here’s the Billboard top 10 list:

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A crying baby is generally thought to mean hunger, sleepiness or a please-change-my-dirty-diaper request. But now researchers at Brown University say a baby’s cry could be a “window into the brain” of a child, unveiling developmental disorders or neurological issues.
Researchers from Brown University and the Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island created a computer-based tool that can analyze the acoustics of crying, the university said in a news release…

Today, whether it be via Skype or Gmail, making phone calls over the web has become part of our daily routine. While the name may not ring any bells for younger generations, Jeff Pulver is one of the pioneers of that very technology we take for granted. A co-founder of Vonage, one of the biggest and earliest VoIP companies around, Pulver is a self-described futurist, serial entrepreneur and long-time evangelist for VoIP technologies…

Do you want to launch a product or service to your existing audience? Are you wondering how to get people involved and excited? To discover how to create a successful launch, this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast goes deep on the subject. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show […