Articles about social

Facebook testing ads in Marketplace, its Craigslist and OfferUp challenger

Facebook will start testing ads in its local sales tool, Marketplace, according to reports from Recode and Marketing Land. The… Read More

Report: Snapchat parent Snap Inc. quietly files for IPO

Snap Inc., the company that operates blockbuster messaging app Snapchat, is in the process of filing for an initial public… Read More

Startup Spotlight: ‘Tinder for friends’ app Patook uses artificial intelligence to weed out flirting

Geosocial apps are having a bit of a moment. Tinder, Bumble, and a host of other services have emerged in… Read More

Seven months later, Allrecipes’ millennial-focused redesign attracts new users — and critics

Allrecipes spent most of 2015 cooking up what it calls “Dot Next,” a redesign with an emphasis on social features,… Read More

Twitter at 10: Jack Dorsey speaks out about augmenting reality, shifting priorities, and facing challenges

Ten years ago, to the day, Jack Dorsey launched a platform that would facilitate social movements, spark a new form of… Read More

Amazon’s Audible introduces shareable audio ‘Clips’ to make audiobooks more social

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ti5TmuTTHk Sharing your favorite passages from an e-book is pretty easy. Just highlight the text and click to share. But there’s… Read More

Oculus adds social features and Facebook integration to Samsung Gear VR experience

Do you reminisce about the days of playing video games with dorm roommates? Even if you and your friends are… Read More

Are you DTH? Seattle startup launches app for making plans with friends

This past weekend, nearly 100 people wandered around Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood looking for a unicorn. No, not one of the… Read More

How Microsoft is changing the social features on Xbox One and the Windows 10 Xbox app

Xbox One Preview members and users of the Xbox beta app on Windows 10 will start seeing a number of tweaks… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Seattle salsa dancers start HurryOut to make it easy to find local events

Digital tools have streamlined services in almost every sector — from daily deals to travel planning to video sharing — but… Read More

Facebook reports $2.6B in revenue, 1.23B monthly active users, beating estimates

Facebook announced today that it brought in $2.6 billion in revenue last quarter, up 63 percent from the same period… Read More

Socially conscious companies: Meet the 4 do-good startups from Fledge’s latest class

From water-powered USB chargers to a post-disaster housing marketplace, four new socially-conscious startups just graduated from Fledge’s third class ever.… Read More

Deloitte Digital takes root in Seattle, buys social media agency Banyan Branch

Deloitte Digital is taking a deeper interest in Seattle, buying social media consultancy Banyan Branch for an undisclosed sum. The… Read More

Amazon debuts group gift cards for birthdays on Facebook

Facebook already makes it easy to remember the birthdays of your friends. Now, with a little help from Amazon, you… Read More

Zynga CEO on job cuts: ‘None of us ever expected to face a day like today’

Zynga, the one-time high-flying maker of social games such as FarmVille and Words With Friends, is cutting 18 percent of… Read More

Blab launches software to predict social media conversations

No, Blab’s new platform can’t necessarily predict the future. But what the Seattle-based social analytics company did debut today is… Read More

Bing beefs up social sidebar with more Facebook content

Just two days after landing a big partnership with Facebook’s new Graph Search, Bing today announced more robust Facebook integration… Read More

Ex-Marchex exec lands cash for Lucky Oyster, plans to take on Bing and Google in social search

Matthew Berk is just four weeks into his new Seattle startup, Lucky Oyster. But the former executive vice president of product… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Qoiza helps you share your favorite products with friends, and earn rewards along the way

The recent explosion of sites dedicated to sharing products that you love (Pinterest, Fancy, Wanelo) has brought another trend to… Read More

Q&A: How Bing is using your friends to challenge Google

Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Stefan Weitz from Microsoft Bing. He gave us a broad update on… Read More