DISH drops Sprint merger bid to focus on Clearwire deal + MORE

Yelp today introduced a “Call to Action” feature that allows merchants to support a single type of transaction on their business listing page on the website.
“Consumers come to Yelp ready to make a spending decision and they rely on Yelp’s wealth of valuable content to find a local business to fit their needs,” wrote Vivek Patel, the company’s vice president of business products…

Facebook has apparently hit pause on rumored auto-play video ads in the News Feed. Reports from December suggested that sometime this spring, Facebook would start selling video advertisements in its marquee space, but a story in Ad Age notes that Facebook will likely delay this product until the Fall…

DISH Network has published a statement indicating that it has elected not to submit a revised offer for a merger deal with Sprint and will instead focus its efforts on an acquisition of Clearwire.
The full statement is as follows:
“While DISH continues to see strategic value in a merger with Sprint, the decisions made by Sprint to prematurely terminate our due diligence process and accept extreme deal protections in its revised agreement with SoftBank, among other things, have made it impracticable for DISH to submit a revised offer by the June 18th deadline imposed by Sprint…

Even if it’s not part of Facebook’s big announcement on June 20, it appears that video is a possibility for Instagram. Developer Tom Waddington posted on his blog that he dug deep into Instagram’s code, finding hints the photo-sharing service may add video soon.
Waddington wrote that he found video code when he was going through Instagram’s application programming interface, as well as images for play, pause and volume control…

Vine has seen impressive growth since its January launch.
The app was released for Android users earlier this month, and has since surpassed Instagram in both downloads and social shares.
With more than 13 million users, and counting, it’s now fair to say that Vine is here to stay.
It is also clear that Vine means business…

The Daily Beast has released its BeastBest Awards, a selection of 82 websites and 95 Twitter feeds hand-picked by the editors.
Each winner includes a photo or sample tweet, description, and link. You can also sort by genre – news, politics, parody, style, books, entertainment, etc.
In short, it’s a major time-killer – in the best way…

Mass Relevance
Social curation and engagement platform Mass Relevance and marketing communications organization VivaKi announced a strategic partnership on Monday. The partnership will give all agencies with Publicis Groupe, which founded VivaKi in 2008, access to the Mass Relevance platform. The Mass Relevance platform can aggregate, filter and display posts from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and YouTube in real time…

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Facebook announced today that the company now has one million active advertisers — companies or organizations that have advertised on the social network at least once in the last 28 days.
The company attributed that feat to small businesses, saying that this milestone is due in large part “to the small businesses growing their businesses online and in their local communities via Facebook…

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Stealing a page right out of a startup called Aggregift’s playbook, Amazon today launched a new feature called “Amazon Birthday Gift,” which allows a group of Facebook friends to go in on an Amazon.com Gift Card together. That gift isn’t posted to the recipients’ Facebook Timeline until their big day arrives…

Facebook has been pushing for users to add more content to their timelines, indicating shows they’ve watched, movies they’ve seen, and books they’ve read. This information is then added to modules on the left side of the timeline.
Now, the site wants to know how well users liked those things…

According to a new study from Optimal, Twitter brings a smaller but more active audience to brands than Facebook does.
The social advertising and analytics startup looked at data from 4,330 brands, representing a total of 3.49 billion Facebook Likes and 595 million Twitter followers. Last week, those brands added 18…

If you watched Superman’s life unfold on a white board yesterday, you’re aware of his wide range of superhuman abilities. One swipe of his right fist is enough to send you into another dimension.
But imagine if you were on the other end of that punch.
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YouTube sensation Vsauce3 gives a scientific breakdown of how much damage Superman could incur on an average human…

Facebook recently hit the 1 billion monthly active user mark, and now the company has another major milestone to celebrate: 1 million active advertisers.
The active part of that is key, as it means 1 million companies, brands and other people have purchased a Facebook ad in the past 28 days.
Facebook’s Director of Small Business, Dan Levy, blogged about the company’s newest milestone:
Over the past year I’ve had the privilege of meeting and learning from many amazing business owners who use Facebook…