New This Week! April 21-25, 2014
- LinkedIn adds mobile photo sharing: Next time you snap a photo at a conference, work event, or in the workplace, forget Facebook – upload it to LinkedIn to share with your connections and improve your professional profile.
- LinkedIn polls for groups will be shutting down May 15th: With LinkedIn’s poll feature headed towards retirement, professionals looking to poll their network of connections will soon have to find another outlet to do so.
- LinkedIn tops 300 million members: By the end of 2014, over half of LinkedIn’s global traffic will be generated from mobile devices, according LinkedIn’s senior VP of products and user experience, Deep Nishar.
- Facebook acquires fitness-tracking ‘Moves’ app: The fitness-tracking app for iOS and Android announced its acquisition by Facebook earlier this week.
- Here comes Facebook’s ad network: Mobile ads launching this month: Facebook is reportedly set to announce its plans for a mobile ad network at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco on April 30th.
- Facebook passes 1B mobile users, 200M messenger users: In its Q1 earnings report, Facebook announced that it has surpassed the 1 billion milestone of active monthly users on mobile and tablets.
- Pinterest debuts guided search, custom categories, improved related pins: Notable improvements to the search function on Pinterest include the ability for mobile users to narrow their search terms visually by swiping through new categories.
- Instagram improves ‘Explore’ tab: Instagram will begin to display a variety of photos and videos liked by people you follow, in addition to content that is trending through the Instagram community.
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