Crowdsourced Shopping Site The Hunt Raises Additional $700K From Ashton Kutcher, Other High-Profile Investors + MORE

Facebook on Tuesday released a major update for its iOS app while at the same time pushing out its Home launcher for Android beyond the US market. You can download both now directly from Apple’s App Store and Google Play.
Facebook for iOS
The biggest addition to Facebook for iOS is Chat Heads, which allows you to keep chatting with friends regardless of whatever else you’re doing in the app…

How did we get here?
Where did the concept of Facebook likes really come from, and why have images become irreplaceably crucial in marketing? How did we get from Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press and metal movable type in 1450 to the mobile ads of today?
Avalaunch Media just released an interactive look into the history of social media…

Some Facebook users are seeing a banner above their News Feed encouraging them to update their “acquaintances” list so certain friends appear less frequently in their feed.
The acquaintances list launched along with “close friends” and Smart Lists in 2011. Users can add people to the acquaintances list to limit the amount and type of updates they see from them…

The Hunt, a site that helps you find items to buy from photos posted on Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, and elsewhere, is today announcing $700,000 in additional funding, on top of the $2 million it had previously raised from Javelin Venture Partners and others. The new round involves several high-profile investors, including Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary’s (Madonna’s manager) A-Grade Investments, marketing and branding expert Rohan Oza, Desi Hits CEO Anjula Acharia Bath, and media investor Michael Banks…

If advertisers want to take advantage of Facebook’s upcoming video ad platform, they’re going to have to pay up — big time.
The video ads, which will likely launch this summer, will run for $1 million each per day, as AdAge reports. According to sources, Facebook plans to sell four ad spots per day, each of which will target specific demographics…

Although the format has yet to be finalized, new pricing details regarding Facebook’s video ad unit have surfaced, and it appears the social network is asking for seven-figure commitments from advertisers.
Introduced last December, the video ads are expected to be 15 seconds long and will play automatically, which means they will start playing as soon as the page is opened…

Vine was just the warm-up. Twitter will soon be incorporating more videos and ads from television networks, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Bloomberg’s sources say that Twitter is in talks to stream videos from Viacom Inc. (the company behind music channels like VH1 and MTV) and run ads alongside them…

Facebook is updating its iOS apps to include the chat heads feature this week, and the update will arrive in the app store as soon as Tuesday, the company has announced
Chat heads was unveiled as part of the Facebook Home announcement two weeks ago. Messages received on Facebook appear as bubbles with your friends’ heads in them…