Beats Reinvents Its Iconic Studio Headphones + MORE

Yesterday, Foursquare introduced a powerful new tool for small businesses: self-serve ads. The new ad product lets business owners pay to make their profiles appear higher in search results for nearby customers.
Foursquare launched Promoted Updates last summer, but up until this past June only bigger businesses were allowed to participate…

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Anthony Weiner has once again been caught with his pants down, this time on gossip site The Dirty. In response to the social media frenzy, entrepreneur Donald Trump has created a short video message — his first on Vine — to tell the world how “sick” Weiner is and asking him (repeatedly) to stay off the video platform…

Facebook page admins hate how only a fraction of their fanbase will see their posts. In October, Facebook allowed users the ability to get a notification whenever a page makes a post, offering people to stay connected to the pages they care about most.
Now some users are seeing a prompt to receive notifications from a page after they like it…

Beats by Dre introduced a brand new version of its iconic Studio headphones Wednesday, the first update to the headphones since their launch in 2008.
“When we came out with the first studio headphone, we were completely different than anything else in the headphone section,” Luke Wood, President and COO of Beats Electronics told Mashable during a private demo of the new headphones…

Video chatting app Glide is on a roll of sorts. In recent weeks this mobile messenger for iPhone and Android devices has been climbing the app store charts on both platforms, having gotten as high as #6 overall in the Apple App Store, and #1 in the App Store’s social networking section. Today, the iPhone app is ranked #16 in the U…

In June, Facebook made hashtags live on the site, borrowing a page from Twitter’s playbook. However, analytics firm Simply Measured noted that adoption has been slow for brands, finding that 20 percent of posts from the Interbrand 100 (a list of the top 100 brands in the world) have incorporated hashtags on Facebook, but there has been no measurable effect…

Enterprise-level social platform Addvocate has raised a new $2 million round of funding, the company announced today.
Addvocate’s cloud-based platform allows companies to leverage the social activity of their employees’ personal social media accounts, so that everyone at the company can become a brand advocate…

Online ticket broker TicketCity has published the results of its first annual overall ranking of the most engaged fan bases in college football.
TicketCity ranked the top 25 teams based on their Twitter followings, Facebook likes, “talking about” metrics, and offline factors including attendance, percentage of stadium capacity filled at home games, and home ticket prices from the 2012 season, excluding bowl games…

While Facebook will report its official numbers later today, a story in The Wall Street Journal indicates that Facebook was wildly successful in the U.S. on mobile.
According to data comScore provided to The Journal, the number of minutes U.S. smartphone users spent on Facebook in this past quarter rose from 111…

Google launched Chromecast, its 2-inch hardware device it bills as being the “easiest way to enjoy online entertainment on the TV.”
Google Android and Chrome chief Sundar Pinchai spoke on stage today at a press event about online videos, saying that 200 billion online videos are being watched globally…