Posts Tagged: Social Networking
A Look At Facebook Patents Covering ‘Big Brother’ Data Collection Technologies
Facebook users continue to be shocked at the amount and kind of data being collected by the social media platform, including recent reports about call and SMS …
Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Users will Determine Trustworthiness of News
On January 19th, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company would increase its efforts against “fake news” by asking its users to rate the …
Effective data management and governance for social media and cloud collaboration platforms
While there are a lot of irreplaceable benefits to leveraging social media and cloud collaboration platforms for business, there are also risks that, if not managed properly, …
Selecting a Business Name in a Social Media Crazy World
Your business name is how people will identify with your goods and services, so you want to have one identity that is all your own. Simple enough …
Snap stock to be listed on NYSE, company to seek reported $25 billion in IPO
Although it seems likely that Snap will seek to secure around $25 billion during its IPO, the company itself doesn’t engage in a great deal of patent …
Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn brings social network analytics to Office software
On June 13th, the Redmond, WA-based multinational tech company Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that it had agree to acquire LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) in a $26.2 billion cash …
Poor management at Facebook leads to allegations of de facto censorship for some conservatives
News that Facebook engaged in suppressing content from conservative groups was first reported by Gizmodo in early May. The online publication reported comments from former Facebook workers …
Facebook advertising revenue jumps on mobile advertising revenue surge
Facebook’s mobile advertising numbers were so good that its entire advertising revenue stream surged ahead 57 percent when compared with 2015’s first quarter, up from $3.31 billion to $5.2 …
President Obama continues technology focus in his final year
The administration of the 44th President of the United States will be remembered for many reasons, but one theme which has been playing out since the earliest …
Activision patents social networking for AI characters, online harassment prevention
The social aspects of video gaming have been a recent focus of Activision research and development activity, as is reflected by the issue of U.S. Patent …
Facebook’s social networking patents focuses on e-commerce platforms, virtual assistants
Anyone who already feels like social networks collect too much personal data may not be happy to find out about the invention protected by U.S. Patent …
American consumers increasingly happy with social media but not search engines
The big winner among social media e-businesses in the 2015 consumer index is Pinterest, the personal web cataloguing service headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Its consumer satisfaction index …
Core Yahoo! patent focus on search engines, social networks and fantasy sports
Between July 2011 and July 2014, Yahoo! had expenditures of 17.8 as a percent of sales on R&D while experiencing a stock growth of 85 percent over the same time …
Bank of America Patents: From Customer Loyalty to Cybersecurity and Social Networking
In this edition, we found a number of patent applications filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect technologies for customer loyalty rewards programs, …
Yahoo! Focuses on Social Platform for Achieving Personal Goals
We were very intrigued to see a large number of patent applications related to goal achievement technologies, and we closely examined three of these which we felt …
