Move over Snapchat, here comes Slingshot
Facebook’s in-house app focuses heavily on reciprocity
DATE: Jun 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business
Barbara Ortutay
Swipe for Ms. Right: The rise of dating apps
Applications make process easier
DATE: May 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family
Apps let you share secrets anonymously
NEW YORK – At a time when Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are pushing people to put forward their most polished, put-together selves, a new class of mobile applications aims for a bit more ho...
DATE: Mar 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business
Facebook to offer trending feature
NEW YORK – In a move that echoes Twitter, Facebook is adding a feature to its service that lets users know the topics of discussion that are trending among the site’s 1.2 billion users, whet...
DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business
Websites cracking down on nasty comments
NEW YORK – Mix blatant bigotry with poor spelling. Add a dash of ALL CAPS. Top it off with a violent threat. And there you have it: A recipe for the worst of online comments, scourge of the ...
DATE: Dec 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Aspiring health nuts may like these bands
NEW YORK – The latest fitness gadgets record much more than how many steps you take on any given day. From sleep patterns to mood, calorie intake and progress toward exercise goals, few aspe...
DATE: Dec 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business
Twitter sets IPO price at $26, will raise $1.8 billion
NEW YORK – Twitter has set a price of $26 per share for its initial public offering, which means the company’s stock can begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange in the most hig...
DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business
Pew: Love is in the air and on the World Wide Web
NEW YORK – Online dating is shedding its stigma as a refuge for the desperate, but people who use sites such as Match.com and eHarmony are still in the minority.
Thirty-eight perc...
DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business
Survey: 1 in 7 still offline
NEW YORK – The Internet has become so entwined in their lives that many Americans might have trouble coping without it. But a new survey found that some 15 percent of Americans – about 1 in ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business
Survey: Many say ‘Big Brother’ is here
NEW YORK – There’s little wonder why George Orwell’s novel 1984 is seeing a resurgence in sales.
More than half of Americans polled in a survey released last week said they agreed...
DATE: Jun 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business
Facebook introduces video on Instagram
NEW YORK – Facebook is adding video to its popular photo-sharing app Instagram, following on the heels of Twitter’s growing video-sharing app, Vine.
Instagram co-founder Kevin Sys...
DATE: Jun 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business
After IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus
Analytic tools able to collect data related to online, offline behavior
DATE: May 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
