Twitter unveiled a new look yesterday, setting itself the goal of becoming consistent across all platforms. And by ubiquitous, Twitter means boosting its 100m active users – who currently tweet 250m times a day – to 7bn. Speaking at LeWeb today, director of platform Ryan Sarver said the focus was on simplicity. In a world where...Read More

Twitter has started to roll out a new look, starting this evening. A blog post announced that the company has simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what people care about, connect with others and discover something new.   Over the next few weeks this will appear on Twitter.com, mobile and...Read More

When Amazon made its deal to invest $ 175 million in LivingSocial, it wasn’t entirely clear how Amazon played in the local deal space. Sure, Amazon has its own non-local deals. And it owns Dallas-based Woot, a product-based deals provider. Still, it wasn’t clear. Today, we have a better idea how they play together. Amazon...Read More

Television programming has always been a popular subject for water cooler conversations at work, so it doesn’t take too much imagination to think that social media and television are a match made in heaven. But according to a survey conducted by online television hub SideReel, expectations about social media and television may be a little...Read More

Television has been called many things, and in the past several years, one of those things is ‘dead‘. But when it comes to advertising, television is still alive and kicking, and according to a new survey from media management software vendor STRATA, it’s television advertising, not digital advertising, that will benefit most from economic recovery....Read More