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Zach Miners
Member since: August 2013
Zach covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is zach_miners@idg.com
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Twitter doesn't seem to have a problem attracting users in international markets, but it definitely has problems making money off them.
2 days 9 hours ago
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Twitter has fewer users and less revenue than Facebook, but in mobile advertising Twitter appears to have dodged the problems that dragged down Facebook's stock after its public offering last year.
3 days 5 hours ago
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Ads are coming to Instagram in the next couple of months, the photo- and video-sharing app maker said Thursday.
3 days 6 hours ago
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Twitter has filed for its long-awaited initial public offering, revealing a fast-growing company but one that lost money in each of the past three years.
3 days 7 hours ago
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Snapchat is giving photos and videos captured with its app some longevity.
3 days 11 hours ago
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More hotels, shops and other businesses will soon be offering free Wi-Fi to customers if they agree in return to "check-in" at the business from their Facebook account.
4 days 5 hours ago
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Google has acquired Flutter, a gesture recognition company whose technology lets people control music and movies on their desktop by waving their hands.
4 days 5 hours ago
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The flood of stories on government spying will not be slowing soon -- in fact the majority of the most important documents detailing how the U.S. National Security Agency collects personal data have not been published yet, journalists from U.K. newspaper The Guardian said on Tuesday.
5 days 9 hours ago
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Facebook has started to include more types of content in Graph Search, a tool for searching what others have been posting about on the social network
6 days 7 hours ago
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Facebook wants to make its ads less annoying to users by only showing them what they want to see, even if it means a dip in ad exposure for some marketers.
1 week 2 days ago
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Google faces financial sanctions in France after failing to comply with an order to alter how it stores and shares user data to conform to the nation's privacy laws.
1 week 2 days ago
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The first draft of anything is terrible, Ernest Hemingway once said (though in slightly more colorful language). Facebook is applying some similar thinking and allowing users to edit their posts.
1 week 3 days ago
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Google is now 15 years old, and the company is celebrating by smartening up its bread-and-butter technology, search, and adding new features such as comparisons and filters.
1 week 3 days ago
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Sudan has regained access to the Internet after a nearly 24-hour blackout that may have been a government-directed response to violent rioting in the country over lifted fuel subsidies.
1 week 3 days ago
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Zach Miners wrote Not online? That's because the Internet is irrelevant and too technical, survey says The information superhighway is not for everyone. Fifteen percent of adults still don't use the Internet, primarily because it's not relevant to them or it's too difficult to use, a recent Pew survey said.1 week 4 days ago
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Connectivity to one of three major international ISPs in Sudan has been restored, following reports that the government may be responsible for cutting off the country's access amid riots over the lifting of fuel subsidies.
1 week 4 days ago
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Zach Miners wrote Twitter partners with FEMA, American Red Cross and others for emergency alerts feature Twitter wants to bolster its position as a go-to source of information during emergencies and other crises with a new notifications feature.1 week 4 days ago
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Didn't catch that tweet all your friends were talking about? Twitter wants you to see it next time, using a new feature that will notify you of tweets and contacts that Twitter thinks you'll want to know about.
1 week 5 days ago
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Forget the older crowd. LinkedIn now wants to help teenagers get into college and find a good job, in a strategy shift that analysts said could eventually pay off for the company.
1 week 5 days ago
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Facebook is moving ahead with plans to test a new mobile feature to entice more people to buy products while shopping on smaller devices such as iPhones.
1 week 6 days ago
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Pinterest already makes nice with outside businesses to better connect them with its site, but the social network is now thinking about consummating that relationship with promotional content.
2 weeks 2 days ago
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The days of shrugging off Twitter may soon be over. Some 200 million users strong, the site is already one of the most prominent social networks, but going public could give it the muscle to become the next Facebook or Apple, one analyst said.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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Twitter announced -- on Twitter, of course -- that the company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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Twitter announced -- on Twitter, of course -- that the company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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How should Twitter handle an initial public offering? Mark Zuckerberg admits he's probably not the best person to ask.
3 weeks 4 days ago
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