Post-SingTel Acquisition, Photo Aggregation App Pixable Gets An Image-Centric Redesign

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pixable_newA little more than a week after announcing its acquisition by telecom giant SingTel, Pixable is releasing a substantially redesigned version of its iPhone photo aggregation app.

As with the old version, the Pixable app aggregates photos and videos from social networks, highlighting the ones that are most likely to be interesting to you. The big theme with the redesign, the company says, is “letting the photos shine.” That may seem like an odd claim for a photo app — weren’t the photos front-and-center before? Well, the change is obvious when you compare at the old home page and the new one.

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C-Level Executives and Social Media: Striking a Balance

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Today’s social media landscape calls for c-level executives to be accessible and available; however, due to the speed at which information now travels, many are apprehensive to join these platforms. Besides the potential for a social media gaffe that turns PR nightmare, many c-level executives feel they are too busy to spend time tweeting while running businesses. […]

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Facebook Shares Jump More Than 6% After Gifts Launch. (Hooray For New Revenue Streams.)

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Screen Shot 2012-09-28 at 1.41.36 PMWell, Facebook shareholders sure like the sound of Gifts.

Around Wall Street’s close yesterday, the company launched a much anticipated e-commerce initiative that lets Facebook users send real, physical gifts to friends and family on birthdays and special events like engagements and weddings. It gives the company a third business model beyond advertising and payments revenue. Shares have jumped by 6.6 percent today to $21.66.

So what could Gifts mean for Facebook’s bottom line? Let’s do some guesswork.

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