May 2014 Archives

May 29, 2014

Software Updates, 30 May 2014

Recently announced software updates: Bringr Bringr Companion (iOS app): new metrics view. Coosto Link operator in queries. Linkfluence TrendyBuzz: geographic analysis. Sendible Sendible for Android 2.0....

May 22, 2014

Software Updates, 23 May 2014

Recently announced software updates: Crimson Hexagon New HootSuite app. pr Fliptop Redesigned UI. HootSuite Pinterest Business Insights, Pinterest Follower Growth, Compare Pinterest Boards, Per Pin Metrics. Also, Crimson Hexagon integration. Linguamatics I2E 4.2: integrated charting and graphing, integration with enterprise...

May 22, 2014

Brandwatch Growing with $22 Million Investment

Brandwatch announced that it has received $22 million in an investment led by new investor Highland Capital Partners Europe. Nauta Capital and other existing investors also participated in the round. With its revenue growing at more than 100% per year,...

May 20, 2014

New Papers, 20 May 2014

Recently released research and white papers: Social Customer Segmentation, Tracx The Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Metrics, uberVU...

May 19, 2014

Socialbakers Acquires Social Insider

Socialbakers announced that it has acquired Social Insider, a social media listening company based in Prague. The acquisition was first announced at the Babel Talk conference last month. Josef Slerka, Social Insider’s Managing Director and Head of New Media Studies...

May 16, 2014

Spredfast Strikes Spark for Real-Time Marketing

Spredfast launched Spark, a platform to help marketers monitor, discover and engage in online conversations as they occur. press release blog post...

May 15, 2014

Software Updates, 16 May 2014

Recently announced software updates: Brandchats Instagram coverage. Bringr Published content tags. Dinamize Mercado Livre coverage, improved Facebook wall analysis. HootSuite Redesigned Android app. Locowise Competitive Content Analysis for Twitter and Instagram. Also, free fanbase prediction for Twitter and Instagram. Simplify360...

May 14, 2014

AlchemyAPI Enters Image Analysis Race

AlchemyAPI announced AlchemyVision, a new line of APIs for image analysis via computer vision. Initial APIs support image extraction and tagging, and image search is planned for a later release. press release blog post demo...

May 14, 2014

Image Searcher Ditto Labs Gets $2.2 Million

Ditto Labs announced that it has raised $2.2 million from individual investors in the media, technology and advertising industries. Ditto's visual search engine is designed to identify brand images in photos shared publicly through social media channels. press release...

May 14, 2014

Attensity Raises $90 Million

Attensity announced that it has received $90 million in equity financing from an international private equity fund and financial advisor company. The company also announced the appointment of its Chairman, Howard Lau, as CEO. press release...

May 13, 2014

New Papers, 13 May 2014

Recently released research and white papers: Mastering Facebook Graph Search, Meltwater Beyond Reach: The Critical Facebook Metrics You Should Measure, Simply Measured The Complete Guide to Enterprise Social Compliance, Sprinklr A Multi-Level Geographical Study of Italian Political Elections from Twitter...

May 8, 2014

Software Updates, 9 May 2014

Recently announced software updates: Lexalytics Italian language support. Socialware Enhanced Review and Moderation functions, improved organization for content marketing. VinTank Twitter Lead Generation Cards integration....

May 6, 2014

Salesforce Announces Combined Social Media Platform

Salesforce announced Radian6 Buddy Media Social Studio as part of the ExactTarget Marketing Cloud. Social Studio combines the monitoring and analytics of Radian6 with the publishing of Buddy Media in a shared work environment. Pricing for Social Cloud starts at...

May 6, 2014

New Papers, 6 May 2014

Recently released research and white papers: Assessing campaign management maturity, Adobe Guest Experience in the Middle East, Olery How Should Contact Centres Integrate Social Customer Service, Our Social Times The Complete Guide to Facebook Analytics, Simply Measured...

May 1, 2014

Unified Acquires awe.sm

Unified announced that it has acquired awe.sm for its social media attribution and conversion tracking technology. The company plans to integrate the awe.sm technology into its Social Operating Platform, while continuing to offer awe.sm's products separately. SMA's acquisitions scorecard press...

May 1, 2014

Software Updates, 2 May 2014

Recently announced software updates: Brandwatch New query operators: hashtags and at_mentions. Clarabridge Clarabridge 6.2: Category-Derived Attribute, Context Awareness, enhanced reporting and visualizations, improved performance, Sysomos connector. DataSift Content age filtering, increased maximum payload size, GZip and ZLib compression. Also, Tencent...