Instagram gets face-tagging with ‘Photos of You’ feature + MORE

Zipcar, the car sharing service that recently was acquired by Avis, announced on Thursday that it was bringing its vehicles to eight more airports in North America. As a result, travelers can rent a vehicle at their leisure from one of 11 airports around the world making it easy to get around.
The new airports are spread across the continent with seven in the US and one in Canada…

The co-founders of Snapchat — Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy — appeared on The Colbert Report this week to clear up Stephen Colbert’s confusion about their photo-messaging app, which sees and deletes 150 million photo uploads every day
Colbert hurled a few jabs at the founders, including one about their finances: “Have you guys made a profit yet or does that disappear after 10 seconds, too?” he asked

Colbert’s comedic questions of course didn’t stop there…

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shared today on the company’s first quarter earnings call that its acquisition of Atlas from Microsoft closed last week and that she welcomed the team to Facebook today.
Atlas Advertiser Suite is a platform that advertisers and agencies use to plan, manage, track and optimize their digital marketing…

Finally, Instagram is getting the Facebook-like ability to tag people in photos, actually attaching a username to a face.
Here’s what it looks like in practice:

Of course, it’s not just for adding other people’s usernames to your own photos; you’ll also get to see pics people are tagging you in…

Today Instagram launched Photos of You, a feature that makes it easier to see all of the photos you’ve been tagged in by friends and customers.
Previously, the only way to find out whether a photo of you was uploaded was to scroll through your activity feed. However, if your username or hashtag wasn’t mentioned, it can be almost impossible to track down every single one…

LinkedIn has just reported Q1 earnings of $324.7 million, up 72% year-on-year, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.45, both soundly beating analysts’ estimates (via First Call) of $317 million and EPS of $0.31; as well as LinkedIn’s own guidance from last quarter, when it said it expected between $305 million and $310 million in revenues…

Gmail will now automatically underline dates and times mentioned in emails, allowing users to use the information to schedule events in Google Calendar without leaving the Gmail interface.
“If you do a lot of scheduling over email, it’s now a little bit easier to create events directly from your Gmail,” Gmail product manager Boris Khvostichenko wrote on a company blog…

Facebook today announced “Trusted Contacts,” an update to its “Trusted Friends” security feature that sends access codes to a few of a user’s close friends in order to help the person regain access to their account when needed.
Users will now be able to designate their Trusted Contacts in advance and change them if necessary through the Security Settings dashboard…

Chennai, like most places in the world, has a crime problem.
What it also has, that most places do NOT (though it’s only a matter of time) is a police force tasked with monitoring social media sites, like Twitter, to help fight back.
But are they planning to use it purely to fight crime – or will they use it to crush political dissidents and other naysayers as well?
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Instagram today announced a new way for users to tag their friends and other accounts, along with “Photos of You,” a new section of the profile that displays all the photos a user or brand has been tagged in.
The feature is similar to Facebook’s own photo tagging, where users can tap an area of a photo to add a person’s name…

Walmart is the top gaining retail and consumer merchandise page in the People Talking About This metric this week. With over 28 million total Likes, Walmart is the second most liked retail and consumer merchandise page on all of Facebook. The page had 742,059 engagements over the week, increasing by 221,116 week-to-week…