Articles about Social Media – Page 13 of 14

Social media agency Ant’s Eye View purchased by PwC

Ant’s Eye View, a three-year-old social media agency with operations in Seattle, Austin and Silicon Valley, has agreed to be… Read More

Banyan Branch expands with take over of Nology Media

Banyan Branch is adding a new tree limb, announcing today that it is taking over Seattle social media upstart Nology… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies gets $5M

Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies has raised an additional $5.5 million, bringing total funding in the company to $57.5… Read More

Boss signing in to your Facebook account? There’s a law for that

Legislatures, state and federal, are starting to react to the trend of employers — at least the creepy employers —… Read More

How big brands can finally fix their massive social media problems

It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that big brands like The Gap or CSV struggle with social media. They… Read More

Can Facebook become a bigger force for social good?

Facebook’s announcement today that it will let users update their status to indicate that they’re organ donors might not have… Read More

The latest influence score to obsess over: Klouchebag

If you say nothing else about social media, you can at least say it’s developing a sense of humor. Mean?… Read More

Free Klout trips a success, says Seattle tourism bureau

What’s the price of influence? It may just be a free trip to Seattle. While the digerati, including Wired in… Read More

Social media firm ReadyPulse names CEO, scores first financing

ReadyPulse — a social media firm founded by former Microsoft and Amazon employees Srinivas Penumaka, T Vinod Gupta and Mihir Vaidya… Read More

Social media vet Shauna Causey leaves Nordstrom for Decide.com

Decide.com wants to transform the way people shop for consumer electronics, appliances and other products online by telling people the… Read More

Exclusive: Visible Technologies buys Cymfony to bolster social media offerings

Visible Technologies is buying Cymfony in a deal that brings together two long-time players in the social media monitoring and analytics… Read More

Direct Impact buys Crowdverb to bolster ‘grassroots’ campaigns

Crowdverb, a Seattle social media monitoring startup led by Todd Herman, Sally Poliak and Cyrus Krohn, has been acquired in… Read More

City of Seattle ties for first in web, social media savvy study

A study from the University of Illinois at Chicago is giving top marks to the City of Seattle for its… Read More

Fiddling with user timelines: A wrong turn for Twitter?

As social web services proliferate, I’m finding Twitter, my first love, the only one that’s truly become a natural feature… Read More

Tech Moves: Medio taps Microsoft vet as chief architect; Zooppa, PATH, etc.

Medio Systems is making a big move into the predictive analytics arena, helping gaming, financial services, entertainment and other companies better… Read More

Startup Spotlight: ReadyPulse turns Twitter, Facebook followers into ‘brand advocates’

There’s no shortage of folks developing tools to help companies make sense out of social networking chatter. Last year, Salesforce.com… Read More

New York social media guru Gary Vaynerchuk invests in Prosodic

Best-selling author, angel investor and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk has a very public desire to own The New York Jets. And… Read More

Social media agency Banyan Branch launches media buying group, hires advertising vets

We wondered why the social media agency Banyan Branch raised a $1.7 million round of venture capital financing last fall.… Read More

Austin here we come: ‘Don’t die’ and other SXSW goals

I’ve got three simple goals for my trip to Austin’s geektastic South by Southwest Interactive Festival this year: To have a great… Read More

The condom of the future? Planned Parenthood offers high-tech rubber with QR code

Here’s a social media experiment that we didn’t see coming. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has begun distributing 55,000… Read More

Gates Foundation’s Tweets reveal passive, insular global health community

Guest Post: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hosting a number of events today in anticipation of the opening… Read More

Vizify scores $1.2M to turn your social networking chatter into beautiful visualizations

Maybe all of that incubation really does pay off. Vizify, a Portland startup that had the unique honor of participating… Read More

Starbucks appoints 29-year-old social media expert with Microsoft and Google roots to its board

Starbucks is getting more serious about its social media efforts, and the Seattle coffee giant just named a 29-year-old rising… Read More

Fantasy Shopper wins top prize at Amazon Web Services’ annual Start-Up Challenge

More than 1,500 companies applied from 78 countries. But, at the end of day, England’s Fantasy Shopper took home the… Read More

Google+ opens to businesses, with link to Google search

Google today announced the long-awaited debut of pages for businesses on Google+, looking to boost the functionality of its fledgling… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies adds $1.5M

Visible Technologies has reeled in an additional $1.5 million, bringing total financing in the maker of social media monitoring technologies… Read More

Social media agency Spring Creek acquired by Mediabrands

Spring Creek Group, a five-year-old social media agency, has been acquired by Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands unit for an undisclosed price.… Read More

Social media agency Banyan Branch takes root with $1.7M

Banyan Branch, the Seattle-based social media marketing firm whose clients include Hartz, Porsche and Gilt Groupe, has raised $1.7 million… Read More

Insights from F8: Facebook’s content strategy is a game changer

F8 now has several years under its belt, and attendees and the media have come to expect that as Mark… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible raises $4 million

Visible Technologies, the Bellevue company which provides social media monitoring technologies to Boost Mobile, DirecTV, Vail Resorts and others, has… Read More