• Amazon is Partnering with Snapchat, But Who Really Benefits?

    Amazon is Partnering with Snapchat, But Who Really Benefits?

    In an interesting partnership, Amazon is going to help Snapchat when it comes to social shopping.  This will pit Snapchat against Instagram and Pinterest.   Today, Snapchat announced that it’s slowly rolling out a new visual product search feature.  This had previously been codenamed “Eagle”.  How does this work? Users can use Snapchat’s camera to scan…

  • A New Study Suggests That More People Are Deleting Facebook

    A New Study Suggests That More People Are Deleting Facebook

    A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that 42% of surveyed Facebook users have taken an extended break from Facebook within the last year.  When we say extended, we mean “several weeks or more”. Their reason has a lot to do with Facebook’s issues related to data mismanagement.  I would argue that there…

  • UK Group Calls on Government to Regulate Social Media Companies

    UK Group Calls on Government to Regulate Social Media Companies

    In the UK, a group of TV broadcasters, mobile network and internet service providers have all urged the government to strengthen its oversight of social media companies.  In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, executives from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, as well as Sky, BT and TalkTalk, called for a new, independent regulator to help tackle…