LinkedIn Acqui-hires Team Behind Maybe + MORE

Revitalized action series, “24,” tops this week’s list of top gaining tv show pages in the People Talking About This metric. Also among the top ten this week is reality series of former child actors, “Tia & Tamera” and upcoming “The Avengers” spin-off series, “Agents of the S…

Atlas view tags can now be used to measure Facebook ads targeted to custom audiences, partner categories and lookalike audiences, the social network informed its largest advertisers this week.
Those targeting types are relatively new to Facebook and weren’t previously supported in the Atlas platform, which advertisers and agencies use to plan, manage, track and optimize their digital marketing…

Retargeting platform AdRoll announced today that it has added the option for advertisers to run self-serve Facebook Exchange retargeting ads in the News Feed. Facebook made this inventory available to Qualified DSPs, including AdRoll, earlier this month. Previously, AdRoll and other companies could only run FBX ads in the right hand sidebar of Facebook…

Shazam on the iPad just got a whole lot better.
The company launched a completely updated version of its tablet app Thursday, with a new discovery home screen, and an auto-tagging feature that can determine what music, television shows, and even ads are playing around you, identifying them automatically…

Facebook has a new “schedule gift” feature for its Gifts product, which allows users to buy something for a friend, but notify them at a later date. Previously, recipients would receive a notification immediately after the gift was purchased.
Now, when users get to the review page after selecting a gift and writing a card, there is a section where they can choose when to notify the recipient…

How long has it been since you’ve reviewed your Facebook Page? Are you taking advantage of the latest Facebook features? It’s critical that Facebook Page managers take time to regularly audit their Page and ensure that they are not missing out on new features. This Facebook Page audit guide outlines 11 key items to review to […

Social media managers and the small teams working at startups and small agencies face many logistical challenges, and finding a suitable workspace can be top among them. We’ve already talked about the pros and cons of working from home for community and social media managers, but sometimes that just won’t cut it…

Social sharing drives eCommerce sales, but all shares are not created equally.
Email still leads the way, and by some distance, with the average email share especially valuable as it’s almost always a one-to-one forward (from one friend directly to another), and leads to an average dollar conversation rate of eight times that of Facebook, and more than ten times that of Twitter…

Jawfish Games, a Seattle-based startup run by a former professional poker player and the engineering team that built the Fult Tilt Poker site, launched a gaming platform that can host more than 100,000 simultaneous players in real-time tournaments across iOS, Android and the web.
While asynchronous, turn-based games have done well on mobile platforms and Facebook over the last five years, pure, real-time multiplayer games haven’t caught on as quickly partially because data connections haven’t been fast enough and because a game developer would need a critical mass of players to match them synchronously…

Call it the unicorn problem: beautiful, alluring, magical, and totally non-existent. Social commerce, according to the latest Monetate e-commerce report, is almost as elusive.
In fact, social media referrals represents just 1.55 percent of all traffic to major e-commerce destinations. And when that tiny trickle of traffic arrived, only …

LinkedIn has acquired the social decision-making service Maybe and has shut it down, the company confirmed today.
The company called the deal an “acqui-hire,” to bring on four engineers and one designer.
Maybe was founded in 2012 by Omar Hamoui, who also founded AdMob, acquired by Google in 2010…

There’s no shortage of third-party alarm clock apps for iPhone, there’s Suno and Rise for starters. But another one has just hit our radar that may be worth your $1.99.
Wakey wakey
Wake has been beautifully designed, with flips, slaps, swipes and shakes very much the order of the day.
When you first launch the app, you’ll see a simple circle with the current time in the middle…