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Social Media News Ticker: Instagram Launches Bolt, Foursquare Debuts New Logo, Facebook Drops Gifts

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Check out all the latest social media news from the last two weeks, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Foursquare: Facebook. Mobile web, iPad, feature phone, Windows Phone, Paper, and desktop users can still message in their main Facebook apps or sites like before. Foursquare.

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Would You Sacrifice Your Privacy For A $5 Gift Card?

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Location analytics startup Placed convinced those people to download a mobile app that tracks them wherever they go, 24/7, in exchange for accumulating $5 and $10 gift cards over time, as well as being eligible for drawings of bigger ticket items, like an Apple iPad. These people have opted in to being measured.”

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Technology Removes Technology

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What do you make of the meteoric rise of the iPhone and iPad ? Dennis Crowley of Foursquare was recently featured in a TV ad for Best Buy where he boasts that his smartphone is the only thing that he'll go back home to get if he forgets it. or a smart startup will. foursquare. They are our companions. corporate design.

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Here are 10 Utah Entrepreneurs You Need to Know

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Allan is now in his own startup, I believe as co-founder, this time starting a new, up-and-coming social commerce company called Piick. If any of you have ever downloaded the ABC app for iPad or iPhone , you have downloaded their work. I've seen a preview and I admit it's pretty cool. This company deserves much more attention.

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Social Pros 28 – Katie Richman, espnW

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It’s going to be run by Brian Mandelbaum , who has been around the block a couple of times in the advertising space, was also on season 4 of the Apprentice, and worked for a bunch of other startups mostly in the video space. Jay : She got an iPad. Katie : Absolutely. Jay : Here’s the exact tipping point in my life.

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