YouTube Founders Hurley And Chen Have Released An Asian Clone Of Vine + MORE

Microsoft, working along with the FBI and 80 authorities from across the world, took down the vast majority of computers that were part of a malicious botnet network known as “Citadel.”
The Citadel botnets were one of the biggest cyber crime rings, allegedly responsible for stealing more than $500 million from the bank accounts of more than 5 million infected computers over the past 18 months…

Are you looking for a smarter way to stay in touch with your most important business relationships? What if you could store all of your contacts in one place? Well now you can with LinkedIn Contacts. In this article, you’ll discover how LinkedIn Contacts looks and take a tour through its features. What is LinkedIn […

Facebook has begun highlighting most engaging posts in the page admin panel. Last updated in March, the page admin panel now marks highly engaged posts in yellow with a star where the post type (photo, link or text) is usually placed.
Facebook have also been notifying users when a post performs better than average, encouraging them to Promote to “get even better results…

Some Facebook users are seeing sponsored research polls about the company’s most recent Facebook Home campaign.

The poll asks users which companies they most associate with “putting your friends at the heart of your phone” and provides related companies and social networks. The marketing campaign included news feed advertisements and the company’s first produced television commercials…

After announcing its intention to end Facebook Credits last March, Facebook has launched the local currency payments API today. Replacing Facebook Credits, the local currency payments API has been put in place to simplify purchase experience, improve payments flow and make it easier to price virtual goods globally…

Last December, it was reported that the average time spent inside mobile apps rose from 94 minutes to 127 minutes a day. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter have already seen the benefits of the increased adoption, and it looks like YouTube is quickly catching up.
A spokesperson for the company revealed that 40 percent of all YouTube’s videos in the U…

TV history is about to be made, with HBO’s first-ever live social media event in celebration of the Season 6 premiere of cult favorite True Blood.
This Sunday, June 16 before the premiere, 13 cast members will kick off the programming with HBO’s first-ever real-time broadcast from the set of Fangtasia, the after-dark bar and nightclub where humans and vampires mingle, in partnership with Mass Relevance…

Apple is starting an iPhone trade-in program this month that will theoretically encourage users to upgrade to newer models, reports Bloomberg.
More to follow

Lil Bub is sticking out her li’l tongue at animal homelessness.
PETA’s latest ad shows the feline internet sensation advising humans to “adopt, not buy, & spay or neuter” their cats.
Described as a “perma-kitten,” Bub is smaller than most cats — the runt of the litter — with extra toes and no teeth…

AVOS Systems, the company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched a new app that appears to be a Chinese version of Twitter’s popular six-second video-sharing app, Vine. I hate to use the word clone, but… clone.
The app is called Wan-Pai, (or Wanpai, we’re not really sure due to complexities in the translation from Mandarin) which seems to mean “Beat” based on the various translations Google is giving me…

Philips is this week’s top gainer in the People Talking About This metric for company pages. The company page category includes a wide array of company types including, but not limited to electronics, clothing, food and telecommunications.
Of the top 10 pages this week, seven are US based pages, with three in different languages…

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Twitter and WPP announced a global strategic partnership this morning that will “greatly expand” collaboration between the two companies, and, WPP says, build its capacity for data-driven marketing.
Financial terms of the agreement were not released, but are probably in the same ballpark as Starcom’s $200 million deal with Twitter that was announced just over a month ago…