Pinterest president Tim Kendall, who has since joining in 2012 overseen the growth of the startup’s advertising business and launch of a wide array of ad products, is leaving the company at the end of the year. Kendall oversaw the company’s business operations for the past five
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/pinterest-business-lead-tim-kendall-is-leaving-the-company/" align="left"]Twitter is rolling out its “Lite” version, after a successful trial in the Philippines. The Android app will become available in two dozen countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Not too different from Facebook Lite, Twitter has also built a version of its
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/twitter-lite-with-lower-data-usage-becomes-available-in-24-new-countries/" align="left"]Facebook has been under fire for its practices and policies that enable advertisers to exclude “multicultural affinity” groups from the audiences they reach via the social network. Now, in light of a ProPublica investigation and pressure from the Congressional Black Caucus, Facebook says it’s committed to taking
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/facebook-will-temporarily-disable-a-tool-that-lets-advertisers-exclude-people-of-color/" align="left"]Farmers Business Network has raised $110 million in new venture funding to support a business that may sound boring to some Silicon Valley technologists but which appears to have addressed a very real need: it’s a social network for farmers that invites them to share their data, pool
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/farmers-business-network-just-raked-in-a-whopping-110-million-in-series-d-funding/" align="left"]Instagram announced this morning that it now has 25 million active business profiles, up from 15 million in July. The company throws out a lot of different statistics (back in September it said it had 800 million monthly active users, 500 million daily active users and 2
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Want more views for your YouTube content? Wondering how to show up in YouTube’s search and suggested videos? An optimized YouTube channel delivers a rewarding viewing experience and works with the YouTube algorithm to boost your visibility. In this article, you’ll learn how to set up and
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/how-to-optimize-a-youtube-channel-and-videos-for-better-visibility/" align="left"]As Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information and illicit content, there have been a number of moments that highlight how the service, and its levers of control, are
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/meet-the-man-who-deactivated-trumps-twitter-account/" align="left"]Even YouTube is adding Stories. The popular format introduced by Snapchat, then adopted by Instagram, Skype, Facebook, Messenger and even some dating apps, is now making its way to YouTube as a new feature the company is calling “Reels.” To be clear, Reels is YouTube’s spin on
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/youtube-is-launching-its-own-take-on-stories-with-a-new-video-format-called-reels/" align="left"]Facebook has always been about friends, but now it’s seeking a broader purpose. So today, Facebook is lending a hand with what it does best: social connections, APIs, and money. At its second Facebook Social Good Forum conference in New York City, the social network just unveiled
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/facebook-drops-fee-on-donations-will-match-50m-year-adds-mentor-feature/" align="left"]Streaming services like Spotify have turned playlists into one of the main ways to discover new music, but I’d argue that they’re missing some of the personality of traditional radio — the kind of radio where I knew not just the names of my favorite DJs, but
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