• New Facebook Tool Promotes Brands Without Users Signaling Likes by Laurie Sullivan

  Since many users don't trust Facebook's privacy controls, companies find consumers are reluctant to share brand preferences on the social network. Thismoment taped Facebook's Open Graph to build out a distributed network that automatically sends notifications to friends with each interaction in real time. ...Read the whole story

• Google's Wildfire Quantifies Impact Of Facebook Fans by Laurie Sullivan

  For every 10 brand advocates who join a social campaign on Facebook, 13 new friends engage with the campaign, according to findings from a study released Monday identifying how these actions attract new customers. ...Read the whole story

• Sequoia Pumps $6 Mil Into MindSnacks by Gavin O'Malley

  Sequoia Capital adds $6 million in fresh capital into educational iOS game maker MindSnacks. ...Read the whole story

• Mobile Wallets On Rise, NFC Tech Still Not Mainstream by Mark Walsh

  The mobile wallet wars are heating up again. Isis, the m-payments initiative formed by Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA is expected to kick off consumer trials in Salt Lake City and Austin later this month. Apple is rolling out its own wallet entry with the Passbook feature in iOS 6. ...Read the whole story

• Streaming Olympics Pays Off For NBC by Wayne Friedman

  NBC has been pulling in an average of 31.5 million unique viewers on laptop/computer use versus 29.1 million uniques at the Beijing Games. NBC previously said it earned some $60 million in advertising sales for its digital platform efforts. ...Read the whole story

• Mobile Women Bring Home Social TV Olympic Gold by Steve Smith

  It's official. Social TV Tweeting is a predominately mobile activity, as initial results from Olympics coverage show. It is also one place where women fully dominate sports content on the second screen. ...Read the whole story

• Furby Is Back...And All App-ed Up by Steve Smith

  There was no way the relentlessly irritating Furby robotic toy could come back in 2012 without an app. It translates Furbish and feeds the damnable creation. ...Read the whole story

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• WOMMA To Issue Social Media Guidelines
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• ReachLocal Appoints Former Dell VP To CRO

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