Tech Week in Review 7-29-2011
Twitter Implements In-Stream Ads In an effort to make sure you catch all the latest “news” coming from the brands you follow, Twitter is changing up the way they’ve implemented Promoted Tweets. Basically, Promoted tweets are getting more face time in your Twitter stream. That’s why starting today, we’re introducing a way to ensure that [...]
Read MorePresident Obama Looks to Twitter Users for Bipartisan Compromise
President Barack Obama has so far lived up to his word that he would use social media to communicate with citizens. He now is looking for support through twitters users to voice their opinions to lawmakers on the issue to raise the debt ceiling. President Obama tweeted: The time for putting party first is over. If you [...]
Read MoreFoursquare & Groupon Hook Up for Real-Time Deals
Foursquare users in the U.S. and Canada will start to see Groupon’s daily deals in the Explore tab of the application and on Foursquare.com beginning Friday, Mashable has learned. Groupon has become Foursquare’s sixth and latest daily deals partner. The IPO-primed market leader in its growing industry was notably absent when Foursquare first rolled out [...]
Read MoreComing to Terms With the Minority High Tech Employment Gap
Co-founder of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) , David Honig blogs about the current issues minorities face with employment in technology on Huffington Post. The aftershocks of the massive economic earthquake that was the Great Recession continue to reverberate, sometimes violently, across the United States. The unemployment rate, especially within communities of color, [...]
Read MorePromoted Tweets Set to Appear in Your Twitter Timeline
Twitter users will start seeing ads in their timeline, with the company officially announcing on Thursday that a new Promoted Tweets product will roll out over the next few weeks with a number of advertisers. This is a big move for Twitter, and certainly its most invasive advertising play to-date. Up until now, Promoted Tweets [...]
Read MoreBlack Entrepreneur Pencils Herself Into Silicon Valley
Tiffani Ashley Bell is the founder and CEO of Pencil You In and a member of the NewMe Accelerator. She will be blogging about her experiences in Silicon Valley. I’m Tiffani Ashley Bell and I founded Pencil You In as a way to allow hairstylists and makeup artists to accept appointments online and by extension, grow their clientele. I’ve been programming since [...]
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