Invisible hits. What could possibly be meant by the following tweet? “CA-40/43-44/49-44/44-50/36-44/49-10/16/14-52–>49/476-10s.” According to a recent CNN report, GOP groups tweeted such seemingly meaningless gibberish in...more
..Laundry time. Make sure you are getting what you’re paying for. That’s good advice in a lot of areas of human endeavor and it’s certainly true of online advertising. We wrote last month about efforts by the online...more
..Lyfted documents? Uber and Lyft, two ride-sharing companies that are both expanding rapidly and trying to take business away from traditional taxis in cities across the nation, have never been on the best of terms. Their...more
11/7/2014
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C-Suite Executives ,
Confidential Information ,
Facebook ,
Former Employee ,
Lyft ,
Native Advertising ,
Online Advertisements ,
Social Media ,
Twitter ,
Uber
..Unfree speech? In the United States, the First Amendment would likely prevent the prosecution of someone who posted racist or anti-Semitic messages on a social media platform. But social media platforms operate worldwide,...more
..Clearing the air. Aereo, the startup broadcasting service that lost big in the U.S. Supreme Court last June, just lost another, and possibly its last, court battle. A U.S. district judge in the Southern District of New...more
..Time change. Until now, Twitter has made a clear distinction between people you follow and people you don’t follow: You only saw tweets from those whom you followed. Now, the service, in what it calls a “timeline...more
..Big Brother isn’t just watching. A single mother in upstate New York was surprised to find that she had a Facebook page in her name, complete with photos of her, her son, and her niece. She hadn’t actually set up the page....more
10/10/2014
/ DEA ,
Facebook ,
First Amendment ,
Google ,
Government Investigations ,
Information Requests ,
Internet of Things ,
LinkedIn ,
Microsoft ,
National Security ,
Settlement ,
Twitter ,
Yahoo! ,
Zipcar
..Filling a gap. Gap Inc., the clothing retailer, is using social media to establish a web presence focused on feminism, equal pay for equal work, and progressive values. For example, the company produced an Instagram video,...more
..Where are the CEOs? According to a new study, fully two-thirds of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 have no personal social media presence at all. And of the ones who do participate in social media, two-thirds use only one of the...more
..Is Tumblr trendier? A survey released by Tumblr says the users of that social media platform have higher average incomes than users of Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, and a report from Adobe says that this translates into...more
9/19/2014
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Google ,
Joint Venture ,
Online Videos ,
Pinterest ,
Privacy Laws ,
Software ,
Software Developers ,
Square ,
Tumblr ,
Twitter
..Disappearing ink. Facebook is testing, for a small group of users, a feature that will permit a user to schedule a post for automatic deletion after a specified period of time. It seems that the period can range from an...more
..Beyond wearables. Wearable Internet devices like Google Glass have made an impact. Could “nearables” be the next new thing? That’s the name that some people are giving to sensors or “beacons” attached to ordinary objects or...more
..Going mainstream. For the first time, both Twitter and Facebook are seeing significant growth in online advertising placed by major companies for brands such as Heineken, Tide, McDonald’s, and Charmin. Major consumer...more
8/1/2014
/ Advertising ,
Facebook ,
Judges ,
Juror ,
Law Enforcement ,
Manufacturers ,
Mobile Devices ,
Online Advertisements ,
Retailers ,
Social Networks ,
Twitter
..The average millennial checks his or her smartphone 45 times a day and learns about news online primarily through Facebook and Twitter, according to a new survey. Search engines and email, the “more traditional” venues,...more
Social media platforms have become an increasingly important means for companies to build and manage their brands and to interact with their customers, in many cases eclipsing companies’ traditional “.com” websites. Social...more
12/18/2013
/ Asset Valuations ,
Brand ,
Business Assets ,
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ,
Confidential Information ,
Conversion ,
Employment Contract ,
Former Employee ,
Intangible Property ,
Interference Claims ,
Lanham Act ,
LinkedIn ,
Misappropriation ,
Phonedog ,
Right to Privacy ,
Social Media ,
Social Media Account Ownership ,
Stored Communications Act ,
Trade Secrets ,
Twitter ,
Unauthorized Access ,
User-Generated Content