Facebook Challenges Yelp With Mobile Pages Redesign Featuring Actions, Local Biz Details, And Ratings + MORE

Facebook today released a new mobile layout for business and fan pages, which gives users more actionable information up top but pushes unpinned page posts further down the screen.
The redesign better optimizes pages for the mobile use case, for instance, looking up a store’s location or hours, viewing a restaurant’s photos or seeing reviews and friend recommendations…

SRCH2, an enterprise search startup created by Google veterans, has officially launched, while also announcing an “insider round” of founding from several venture capital firms and angel investors.
Investors include Data Collective, Redpoint’s Brad Jones, Horizen Ventures, TenOneTen Ventures, data scientist Jeffrey Ullman, Manyam Mallela, Clark Landry (co-founder of Shift…

In what appears to be the first academic study [pdf] devoted to Pinterest usage, scholars Eric Gilbert and Loren Terveen conclude that Pinterest’s image-based platform taps in to consumer demand.
The site has earned a reputation for driving more traffic, and more sales conversions, than other social networks…

Enterprise social networking business Jive Software has launched its spring 2013 update with new features including “rooms” for collaborating on specific projects, and integration with cloud storage service Box.
Jive competes with Microsoft’s Yammer and Salesforce’s Chatter to provide enterprise social networking services to companies…

Facebook and Timelines Inc. begin trial today in a case over the social network’s “timeline” profile feature, which Timelines says infringes on its trademark over the word “Timelines.”
Timelines Inc. operates Timelines.com, a website for people to create and collaborate on historical timelines…

New data has revealed that while Facebook still commands the lion’s share of the worldwide social sign-in space, it’s Google that has made the biggest gains over the past year, largely at Twitter’s expense.
While Facebook had a 54 percent share of all social sign-in buttons across websites in Q3 of 2012, it’s dipped back down to less than half (46 percent) in Q1 of 2013, reports Janrain in their April 2013 report…

We love learning about our customers, and if you follow us on Facebook, you know that we love telling you about the people behind Sprout Social as well. Today we’re especially excited because we’ve just welcomed Andy White, a veteran of the social scene with quick-witted thumbs, to our growing team…

Jake Johnson is apparently just as good at impersonating Internet celebs as he is being irresistibly goofy as Nick Miller on Fox’s New Girl
The self-proclaimed “competitive” actor sat down with MadeManDotCom’s Paul F. Tompkins to display his best Grumpy Cat face, Troll face and Leo strut
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He proved a worthy adversary to last week’s celeb, Alison Brie, who also imitated famous cats and memes…

With the launch of the new Timeline sections, Facebook users have new options to engage with paid and organic stories about movies, TV shows, books and music in more authentic and structured ways, including being able to indicate that they “want to watch” a film.
However, there are still limits to which actions advertisers can pay to promote and the data they receive about these new engagement types…

People go to Yelp for reviews, but also for phone numbers, addresses, and hours. Facebook wants that traffic, so today it rolled out a global redesign of mobile Pages that features details about local businesses, star ratings, and buttons to Like, Call, or Check-In to them up top. Facebook tells me this is its first “truly mobile-first” redesign, with no immediately scheduled parallel web makeover…