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Social Media Newsfeed: Twitter, CBS Ad Partnership | Facebook Mobile Payments
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Twitter Partners with CBS for Massive Video-Ads-Within-Tweets Program (AllTwitter) Twitter and CBS are partnering to bring live video...
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Line Adds Vine-Style Clip Maker & Video Calling To Its Mobile Messaging Platform
The largest mobile messaging apps are increasingly social platforms in their own right. There is more evidence of that today as Line Corporation‘s Line – which had around 250 million registered users...
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Twitter’s Top 5 Accounts Are All in Japan — Here’s Why
During an Aug. 3 airing of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece Castle in the Sky, thousands of anime fans watching the broadcast in Japan tweeted in unison to coincide with an exciting...
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How Japan’s Line became an unintentional gaming-platform giant (interview)
Line Line has become huge in Japan and other territories. Oct. 29-30, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets On Sale Now Line has become a hot mobile messaging platform in Japan, with more than 270 million...
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Messaging App Line Now Brings In Nearly $100M A Quarter, But No Official Word...
Line, the messaging app that blew up in Japan over the past two-and-a-half years, is now bringing in nearly $100 million in revenue a quarter. The app, which is a subsidiary of its parent company...
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TextPride scores $1M to bring branded emojis and stickers to mobile apps
Fred Beneson Dec. 4 – 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Mobile branded content company TextPride has completed a $1 million seed funding round, the company said. TextPride makes stickers...
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Facebook Friday – Update to Facebook Messenger App [VIDEO]
In this episode of Facebook Friday, we discuss a messenger app update on the world’s largest social network. This tweak might seem subtle, but it could have a substantial impact on how users interact...
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This social video app is more popular than Facebook among Japanese teens
John Koetsier Facebook started in colleges. Japanese live video startup TwitCasting said yesterday that it owns 50 percent of the college market in Japan — and it’s coming here. Twitcasting is a...
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What Kind of Privacy Do We Really Want?
Privacy on social media is a delicate balancing act wherein we all try to keep separate the things we want to tell the world, from the things we never want anyone to know. With millions of status...
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The secrets to monetizing Western mobile games in Japan
Caption: Supercell’s iOS strategy game Clash of Clans has invaded Japan, and GungHo is helping it establish a foothold. Source: Supercell Masanari Arai is CEO of Kii Corporation Japan is now the...
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The DeanBeat: What Facebook’s $16B acquisition of WhatsApp says about the...
Source: giaomeng/Flickr Facebook’s $16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service, certainly said a lot about how much the social network needs to catch up in mobile. But it also...
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Mobile Messaging App Line Claims 2M New Users In 24-Hour Period After...
Mobile messaging platform Line, a WhatsApp rival that’s very popular in Japan but is also gunning for global growth, has claimed it acquired two million new registered users in a 24 hour period after...
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Line To Open Its Sticker Market To All Designers, Launch Skype Competitor
Line announced today at a press conference in Tokyo (covered by TechCrunch Japan) that it will open its sticker marketplace to all designers and companies. The platform was previously available only to...
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What Does The WhatsApp Deal Mean For Brands?
Unless you’ve been hiding under the digital equivalent of a rock, or perhaps living in China, it’s almost certain that you’ve heard by now about Facebook buying mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19...
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How a seasoned venture capitalist at IDG Ventures views game investments...
Above: Phil Sanderson of IDG Ventures Image Credit: Dean Takahashi Venture capitalists have had a hot and cold view of gaming. When the sector is hot, they invest in games by the hundreds of millions...
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LINE’s Cheap Voice Service, LINE Call, Now Live For Android Users Of The...
In the ongoing battle for more users and differentiation in the battle between messaging apps, today LINE has launched its newest feature: a flat-rate voice calling service called LINE Call, to expand...
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Line Targets 1BN Users Of Its Messaging App By 2015
The ripples from Facebook’s $19BN purchase of messaging app WhatsApp continue to rock the app space, pushing more and more developers to build comms tools with a twist in the hopes of harvesting even...
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Line Starts Letting Users Make And Sell Their Own Stickers On Its Messaging...
Mobile messaging platform Line, which is gunning for a billion registered users by 2015 and is also reportedly considering an IPO later this year, has added a new feature aimed at boosting engagement...
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Messaging 2.0 Is Now Over
The second messaging revolution is now quickly coming to a close. With the news today that Korea’s leading messenger KakaoTalk is merging with one of that country’s largest internet portals, Daum...
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Has game investing turned into a gold mine or risky bubble speculation?
Above: The view from the Videogame Economics Forum in Angoulême, France. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi What’s next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat’s 7th annual event on the future of...
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Tango Finds Engagement Actually Enhanced by Ads in Their Messaging App
The conventional wisdom has always held that, when it comes to P2P apps, most users are too busy in their media experience to be distracted by advertisements. That’s why it’s always been held that P2P...
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Salesforce and LINE: Ground-breaking mobile messaging partnership brings 1-1...
Image Credit: LINE Salesforce’s marketing cloud and the 450-million member mobile messaging platform LINE have announced a partnership at the Salesforce conference today in Tokyo, Japan. But LINE is...
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Report: Japanese Messaging App Line to Launch $10 Billion IPO
Line, the Japanese company famous for its popular messaging app, filed for an IPO in the $10 billion range, according to a report. CNBC and Reuters report that the company, owned by South Korea’s...
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Verizon introduces new $60 single-line plan with unlimited talk, text and 2GB...
For all you loners out there, Verizon has a new plan just for you. For $60, you’ll now get unlimited talk/text and 2GB of data. If you are paying for your device with Verizon’s Edge plan, your...
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LG announces Music Flow, a multi-room music streaming system
LG has announced a new multi-room music streaming solution to compete with the likes of Sonos called Music Flow. Like the Sonos systems, different speakers connect to your home network, and with LG’s...
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Line App Users Made $12 Million Selling Custom Stickers
Line is a messenger app from Japan that makes more money each month from selling stickers than most startups in their entire lifetime. On average, the messenger app rakes in about $10 million in...
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Ranked: All 32 billion-dollar mobile internet start-ups (report)
A little less than two months ago there were 25 billion-dollar mobile internet startups. In a sign of just how quickly the mobile ecosystem is exploding, there are now 32. Today in a report on VB...
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