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In a move to grow beyond the confines of Facebook, Zynga announced its own gaming platform. Zynga founder Mark Pincus opened the company’s second "Unleashed" press event Tuesday by tipping his hat to the hundreds of employees who lined the rafters of the five-story headquarters in San Francisco

Last week, Instagram hit 27 million users, solidifying it not only as one of the most popular photo-sharing services on the market, but as one of the world's fastest-growing social networks .

Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann explains why the social network updated its profile pages, and future plans for more extensive changes. Earlier this week, we heard a vague promise from Pinterest's founder Ben Silbermann : The fast-growing social bulletin-board website would be adding user profiles by week's end. Voila! On Friday morning Pinterest introduced profile pages that showcase a user's photo more prominently, as well as the other individuals that user most often re-pins

Cofounder and CEO Ben Silbermann also talks APIs and affiliate links at SXSW. Pinterest, the addictive image collection and sharing site, will soon release a new profile page, possibly as soon as this week, and expand the types of items people can collect to include video.

Digital adoption in schools has been slow because of the overhead involved. That changes today.

Leo Widrich, co-founder of the social media management tool Buffer, on how to get more out of your Tweets. If you love Twitter —and you also have a life—you probably use Buffer to schedule your tweets: To make announcements at a specific time, to send time-sensitive tweets like for limited-time offers, to communicate when your followers are most likely to notice, and to avoid membership in the tweet-a-minute club

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Oversharing is an overwhelming problem online. Keeping up with all your news and interests and social channels can be exhausting--it's why innumerable aggregators exist (from Huffington Post to Reddit and Pinterest) to help us manage our consumption habits. Today, the startup Flavors.me takes another swipe at the problem, launching a new version of the service aimed at tackling our social media A.D.D

By embracing a "digital first" approach, The Guardian has seen readership on its website shoot up by over 40% year over the past two years. Its latest feature, the Twitter-scaling search bot @GuardianTagBot, should only help. “It has fun and charm, but it's also fantastically useful and structurally sound,” Janine Gibson, who leads the papers' digital operations in the U.S., tells us

Navigation, thanks to a bunch of innovations, is about to get futuristic in a way Star Trek's Mr. Chekov would be impressed with ..

These are the spirits of innovation past: 11 products and services that Google axed. Not everything Google touches turns to gold

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AT&T is making it drop-dead easy for developers to use the company's internal infrastructure to build mobile apps--including some that could be used by customers of other carriers or networks. Here's why. Amazon Web Services was a game-changer for application developers.

Freshlist--one of the most exciting projects to come out of the 24-hour Cleanweb Hackathon--connects sellers and buyers of local produce so nothing goes to waste.

In 24 hours, 80 developers needed to create the most innovative video prototypes possible. Here's a look at the hackathon's clear winners. It's Hour 27 of Hackday.tv , a two-day contest organized by Shelby.tv to develop a new wave of video and TV technology, yet the contestants remain calm, chipper, and awake