Microsoft announces Windows Azure is now used by over 50% of Fortune 500 companies + MORE

Quick, which website gets the most traffic? If you said Facebook, you’re caught up with the times! We spend about 6 hours per month on Facebook, and with over 1 billion people on Facebook, that’s a lot of time. What it means for advertisers though is a large and captive market for their message…

Through Facebook’s social plugins, businesses are finding new and innovative ways to attract readers and customers.
At the recent AllFacebook Marketing Conference in San Francisco, Jason Jedlinski, the Vice President of Digital Products & Platforms at Tribune Broadcasting, and Jay Budzik, the Chief Technology Officer at Perfect Market, Inc…

Forget this e-vite crap. Facebook just sent out letterpress invitations for its latest product announcement.

Woo, fancy.
On June 20, your trusty VentureBeat newshounds will be reporting live from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park and will have all the juicy details of the small team/big idea announcement…

Microsoft today announced a notable Windows Azure milestone: more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 are now using the service. That’s impressive if you remember that Windows Azure was released just over three years ago on February 1, 2010.
The company also noted that in just a year, Windows Azure’s customer base has doubled to more than 250,000 at an average of 1,000 new customers per day…

Facebook went old school in announcing the launch event for its newest product, sending invitations out to the media through snail mail.
The company told members of the media that it will introduce something new at its Menlo Park, Calif. office on Thursday, June 20. Reporters received an invitation from Facebook, with the words, “A small team has been working on a big idea…

Community and social media managers that split their time between desktop and mobile will have an easier time keeping track of Google+ notifications. Google announced this week that the system had been redesigned and now supports syncing across devices.
Now when you read a notification on one device, Google+ will mark it as read on your other devices…

Facebook has officially decided its eight members of the company’s board of directors, a vote that was taken earlier this week at the company’s inaugural shareholders meeting. It has been a busy week for Facebook executives, some of whom also sold stock this week.
Facebook confirmed, in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the company’s board of directors:

Mark Andreessen
Erskine Bowles
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
Donald Graham
Reed Hastings
Sheryl Sandberg
Peter Thiel
Mark Zuckerberg

Several prominent Facebook executives also offloaded or transferred company stock recently…

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was the big tech story of the week, with the unveiling of iOS7, a new Mac Pro, new AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule devices, and a brand new Apple music product: iTunes Radio.
But, as VentureBeat pointed out, one detail overlooked in much of the coverage of iTunes Radio is that the service includes a Twitter #music trending station…

Back in March, I wrote about how Heyzap was introducing advertising to its mobile gaming platform. Now co-founder Jude Gomila says the company has become a significant player in mobile advertising.
Specifically, Gomila sent along the chart showing the growth in publishers running Heyzap ads and the corresponding growth in ad impressions over the past six months…

Do you use Pinterest for business? Are you wondering how your business can benefit from Pinterest? To learn some creative ways to use Pinterest to help your business, I interview Cynthia Sanchez for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social […

This week, Factory PR is hiring a social media strategist and community manager, while Remedy Health Media needs a web producer. ARINC is seeking a social media and web specialist, and Disney Babble is on the hunt for a social media marketing analyst. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro…

Before allegedly becoming part of the secret National Security Agency surveillance program PRISM, Yahoo fought against it in court, in what was until now a secret challenge. The company eventually lost and had to comply, according to new reports.
This revelation comes from newly leaked documents, obtained by The New York Times, that shed some light on how Yahoo became part of PRISM, the classified NSA snooping program that allows the government to retrieve foreign users’ data from tech giants, which reportedly include companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple
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