Yelp’s mobile app lets users read reviews and even scope around for nearby deals. Screenshots by Nate Ralph/CNET Is Yelp putting itself on the selling block? According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the go-to site for crowdsourced reviews on nearly every sort of consumer-focused business is exploring a sale. The company apparently …
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CEO Jeff Weiner has been pushing LinkedIn beyond its original focus on job recruitment. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s investments to enter new markets and find new lines of business may not be paying off as quickly as hoped. The company said Thursday it expects to have second-quarter revenue and profit that fall well below analysts’ estimates. The …
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says he is not worried about job security. Getty Images After Twitter followers saw another disappointing earnings period Tuesday, questions about whether CEO Dick Costolo’s job are resurfacing. But there’s one person who doesn’t think so — Costolo himself. “I don’t worry about job security,” said Costolo during an interview on Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. Costolo’s …
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David Byttow, Secret CEO: “First of all, you have to define what a secret means.” Seth Rosenblatt/CNET It’s no longer a Secret; the once popular secret-sharing app is shutting down. After much speculation, Secret co-founder and CEO David Byttow tweeted Wednesday that “with a heavy heart” he is shutting down the struggling anonymous-messaging app. Byttow said he removed the Secret …
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Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET Oh, the power of tweets. Twitter experienced firsthand Tuesday how its microblogging service can disseminate news faster than just about any other news organization when one of its users tweeted the company’s first-quarter sales and profit about a half hour before the results were scheduled to be announced. Selerity, a New York market …
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Twitter’s Highlights feature is the social network’s latest attempt to increase people’s engagement with the site. Above: Twitter’s SF headquarters. James Martin/CNET Twitter seems to be taking a cue from Facebook. The company announced on Thursday a feature called Highlights that — like Facebook’s News Feed — is designed to draw on a user’s information to deliver relevant content and …
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Twitter users can now turn on a setting that enables them to receive direct messages from anyone. James Martin/CNET Twitter is expanding its popular direct message feature to allow users to receive messages from other users regardless if they follow each other. The move is part of its ongoing effort to try to boost user growth as pressure from Wall …
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A crowdfunding campaign for South Carolina police officer Michael Slager raised more than $1,300 before it was shut down by Indiegogo. Screenshot by CNET Moments after Oklahoma reserve deputy Robert Bates was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a suspect, a $25,000 fund-raising campaign to pay for his legal bills kicked off on Indiegogo. By the next day, …
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Twitter hopes its new home page will entice more people to become active users of the site. Above: Twitter HQ in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET Twitter has redesigned its home page to attract new users by letting them check out “top tweets” in various categories without first having to register or sign in. It’s in part an effort to convince …
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