YouTube Hispanic, a Google venture that was unveiled at the Hispanic Marketing Forum held in New York during the month of March, has set its sights on gaining the attention of the coveted, blossoming Hispanic demographic to determine what appeals to the group.
This week in social media, YouTube had to reset its maximum view counter because you kept watching and sharing PSY's Gangnam Style video. Also, Mark Zuckerberg elucidated his plan to colonize the world into Facebook using Internet.org and Twitter introduced new tools to combat cyber bullying.
This week in social media, Facebook launched a new app as CEO Mark Zuckerberg impressed everyone with his Chinese language skills. Meanwhile, Twitter is planning to kill the password for good, Skype launched its own Snapchat clone, Snapchat launched its first ads, Tumblr embraced video in a big way, and upstart Ello got attention by legally promising to never advertise on its social network.
Eighty percent of Latinos have social media accounts, surpassing the general population's 72 percent. Hispanics beat out non-Hispanics in the use of YouTube and Twitter for shopping, not to mention its use for personal, observational and professional purposes.
Google has been working on improving efficiency in nonprofit organizations with its Google for Nonprofits program. At the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) annual national convention, Google's Public Policy Analyst Jennifer Bernal discussed Google for Nonprofits and the kinds of services the company offers besides its search engine.
This week, the “study hit the fan” for Facebook, as the world of online media picked up on the controversial Facebook emotion research that we reported early last Saturday and a privacy group filed a formal complaint with the FTC. Meanwhile, Twitter could introduce an integrated “Buy Now” button, Vine added “Loop Counts” and YouTube was found to be more popular than television.
Months following the phenomenon of "Twitch Plays Pokémon," The Pokémon Company International announced their next national championship tournament will be streamed online via Twitch.
What's been a side show to the general battle over net neutrality, the possible Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, and the FCC is the more technical issue of network interconnects and "paid peering." Google Fiber -- which has been seen as the only hope for a fair, open internet if the FCC allows "fast lanes" and the largest cable merger in history -- just announced it doesn't and won't charge for peering.
The traffic that Netflix generates has grown substantially over the years as it now accounts for more than 34 percent of the wired downloads on the Internet in North America.
One of the leading digital measurement and analytics companies in the United States published the top smartphone applications (apps), search engine rankings, and online video content properties for the latest months of 2014.
In honor of the annual prank celebration known as April Fools Day on the first of the month, numerous tech companies from around the world participate in gags and hoaxes as it tries to fool millions of unsuspecting people.
An Arizona couple is expecting the birth of their fourth child and it so happens to be a girl, which brings the gender count of their offspring to three girls and one boy.
