Linea Raises $4M Seed To Push Past Slideshow Photo-Browsing With Scrolling Image Mosaics + MORE

One outcome of the democracy that is Twitter is the existence of accounts like this one: @TeaPuns, whose followers are treated to just that – puns about all things tea, in addition to the occasional non-humorous, tea-related tidbit.
The account’s “name” is “‘Sup, Brew?” and is based on a Tumblr, bilbo-tea-baggins…

Just over a month has passed since Tumblr introduced sponsored posts on mobile, its first ad unit that looks and feels like a regular post. Starting today, visitors will also begin to see sponsored content on desktop.
Previously, Tumblr’s ads limited advertisers to the “Radar” post that appears on members dashboards and alternated between paid promotions and spotlight placements…

Apple CEO Tim Cook made some news this week during the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference when he announced that the company has “several more game changers” up its sleeve. Cook also revealed that Apple has purchased nine companies since October, and sold more than 13 million Apple TVs…

Next week, you’ll have the opportunity to hear the secrets to mobile monetization from industry experts, learn about the latest trends lighting the app world on fire, and showcase your app or brand in front of top talent and investors. The action is all happening at the Inside Social Apps Conference & Expo on June 6-7 in San Francisco…

Photo-sharing may seem a very saturated space — factoring in the likes of Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Path, Twitter and even, on a smaller scale, the mobile messaging apps — but there’s still room for disruption reckons Seattle-based startup Linea, which is aiming to reinvent how people share multiple sets of photos with its horizontally scrolling filmstrip of pictures…

In a move to lend pages greater authenticity, Facebook introduced Verified Pages for high-profile people and businesses.
Verification is available to a small number of Facebook pages who are at the greatest risk of impersonation on Facebook.

Verified pages will be clearly marked with a small, blue checkmark so that users can tell in Graph Search and general Facebook browsing that the profile is authentic…

Facebook removed 21 positions from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of search, user operations, infrastructure and marketing, among others.
The company appears to have hired a linguist to “assist with a variety of language projects, including extensions to Graph Search…

Do you use social media to attract and engage customers? Are you wondering how you can use social media to market your business and drive sales? To learn how you can develop relationships with social media and content, I interview Jeff Korhan for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social […

Facebook added 15 new positions to its careers page this week, primarily in sales roles across the world.
Apart from the media solutions, client partner and other sales jobs, Facebook added listings for a communications associate, marketing manager, facilities operations manager, a data analyst and international counsel…

Facebook has updated the design of the emails it sends when users claim an offer on the site.
The new emails, redesigned earlier this month it seems, have a more modern look with elements from the latest site redesign. The offer is presented in a module with a horizontal photo, similar to how it appears in News Feed, however it is much larger, so page owners should make sure they include a high quality photo with their original offer…

Visual analytics and marketing platform Curalate studied 500,000 images on Pinterest to discover what drives the most likes and repins. The results might astonish you.
First of all ixnay on the faces: brand images without faces drive many more repins than images with faces.
And generally, color is good, particularly images with more than one dominant color, which are repinned 3…

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Seattle-based Linea claims it can “disrupt traditional photo technology”, whatever that means, but either way it has raised $4 million for its mobile photo browsing app.
With the fresh cash, Linea intends to enhance its ‘intelligent framing algorithm’ that allows users to instantly arrange every picture uploaded into a linear collage, based on its strongest focal point…