Good.co Helps You Find Employers That Match Your Personality + MORE

The latest to join the cadre of startups offering tools for more private sharing outside of Facebook’s massive footprint is not, in fact, another startup, but rather another media giant: Disney. Citing its “rich heritage in storytelling,” Disney’s Interactive division, best known for games, sites, and virtual worlds like “Where’s My Water?,” “Temple Run: Brave,” “Club Penguin,” Disney…

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Airbnb Find: Sleep in Someone Else’s Car in San Francisco, Just $103 a NightRents in San Francisco getting you down? Try living in a 1990 Chevy Conversion van for $520 a month. It has no Internet or bathroom, but it has a queen-size bed and it runs!
The van is parked at the seediest edge of the Mission District, according to the Airbnb listing.
A studio apartment in the Mission goes for upwards of $1,600 these days — thanks, in no small part, to well paid engineers at successful startups like Airbnb…

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Facebook begins supporting emoji in posts and comments on desktop and mobileFacebook has started to roll out support for emoji in all posts and comments on desktop and mobile, a company spokesperson tells us.
Previously, emoji — a standardized set of emoticons and picture characters – were available for Facebook Messenger, but not within status updates, comments or other posts…

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Five reasons you should be using SMS based marketing

– venturebeat.com/category/social/

David Wachs is senior VP of mobile at digital marketing firm ePrize.
How many texts would you say you send each day? Hmm … a lot.
Today, texting is everywhere and everything to consumers According to the CTIA, 2.27 trillion text messages are sent every year, in the US alone, which is 6.3 billion per day or about 20 text messages per person every day…

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Good.co Helps You Find Employers That Match Your PersonalityThe Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: Good.co
One-Liner Pitch: Good.co lets you see how well your personality matches up with specific companies and employees, so you end up at a place that’s really the right fit for you…

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Study: FBX ads in News Feed have nearly 200% better ROI than in sidebarFacebook Exchange retargeting ads that appear within News Feed deliver an average increase in ROI of 197 percent compared to FBX ads on the right hand side of Facebook.com, according to an early study by Nanigans.
Nanigans was among three “Qualified DSPs” with alpha access to Facebook’s first tests of putting FBX ads — targeted by web browsing cookies rather than Facebook data — into the desktop News Feed…

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Foursquare’s New App Makes Sharing Easier for Your Customers
When a visitor to one of your company’s locations checks in with the new version of the consumer Foursquare iPhone app, he or she can now share details of his or her check-in-related accomplishments with friends. Those include not only personal accomplishments like a 30-day streak at the gym, but more importantly for businesses, received Tips and unlocked Specials…

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Who Would YOU Like To Stalk On Twitter?

– mediabistro.com/alltwitter/

Who Would YOU Like To Stalk On Twitter?New people join Twitter every day, from celebrities and religious figures to politicians and your Aunt Gertrude (and she’s following you).
But there are still some holdouts who would make the Twitterverse just thatmuch better with their presence. Can you think of a few folks who fit that description? TIME came up with a list – and we have a few to add…

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Mobile price comparison service Save22 lands new investment to expand in Southeast AsiaSingapore-headquartered price comparison site Save22 has raised an undisclosed round of funding that will see it push on and expand its service across Southeast Asia. The round was led by existing investor Crystal Horse (Singapore), and includes participation from blog advertising network Nuffnang, Strategia Ventures (Singapore) and Little Lights Capital in Indonesia…

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Fast & Furious, Iron Man, Scarface and others among this week’s top PTAT gainers for movie pagesThe Fast & Furious movie franchise has earned the title of this week’s most engaged movie Facebook page. The page boasts a PTAT of over 2 million making it fourth fastest rising page among pages of all categories. The next top rising movie page received 468k engagements, 1.5 million less engagements than the Fast & Furious page…

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