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| Polaroid's Fotobar Stores Will Let You Print Photos From Your Phone | | Polaroid is launching retail shops called Fotobars that let people come in and print digital photos stored on their phones. The first store, set to open this February, will be located in Delray Beach, Fla.; store openings in New York, Las Vegas and Boston will follow. In total, Polaroid plans to open "at least ten" Fotobars in 2013.
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| Google to Resolve FTC Antitrust Case Today, Report Says | | The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's nearly two-year antitrust probe into Google will come to a close Thursday, according to a report. After 20 months, the search giant will end the case with a "voluntary agreement and a consent decree" on its alleged abuse of patents, Bloomberg said.
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| LinkedIn's Endorsements Have Become Meaningless | | In social media, friction is often presented as the enemy. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for instance speaks of "frictionless sharing" as a goal. Last year, Facebook worked with media companies like The Washington Post and The Guardian for frictionless sharing apps that automatically share articles a user is reading with her friends. Now, those "reader" apps are gone.
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| Al-Jazeera America: Mideast Channel Buys Current TV | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:00 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Qatar-based cable news channel Al-Jazeera will soon have a foothold in about 50 million U.S. households after closing a deal to buy Current TV. "Al [Gore] and I are thrilled and proud to announce that a few moments ago Current was acquired by Al Jazeera, the award winning international news organization," the memo from co-founder Joel Hyatt reads.
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| Is Snapchat the Next Frontier for Marketers? | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:28 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| In what may be a first for the platform, a New York frozen yogurt chain is leveraging Snapchat for a promotion that presents users with a coupon that self-destructs within 10 seconds. The idea came about when the chain -- 16 Handles -- noted that a lot of its young users were using their Snapchat handles to interact on social media.
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| Facebook Jumps 5% As Wall Street Learns to Like the Stock Again | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:08 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Facebook is off to a good start this year. The stock jumped by more than 5% on Wednesday to close at $28 a share, pushing the company's market cap back above $60 billion. Several other big Internet stocks like Google and Yahoo also enjoyed gains on the first day of trading this year thanks to renewed investor confidence following the news that the U.S. Congress had approved legislation to avert the worst of the fiscal cliff.
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| YouTube's 20 Most-Shared Ads in December | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:32 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| In the last month of 2012, the most-shared YouTube ads included some favorites from earlier in the year. The most popular was YouTube's own blowout year-end wrap-up/mashup. The hilarious music video, set to the year's defining pop hits, "Gangnam Style" and "Call Me Maybe," brings in viral stars like PSY, Felicia Day and Jenna Marbles.
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| Announcing a Live Chat With College Hunks Hauling Junk Founder | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:59 PM | Scott Gerber |
| Streaming live on Mashable, College Hunks Hauling Junk founder Nick Friedman will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST) Thursday, Jan. 3. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council's #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Friedman will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site.
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| Do You Need Media Training? | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:21 PM | The Daily Muse |
| If you’re an entrepreneur or executive, you’ve probably heard of media training, but you may be unclear on the specifics. Who on the team should get it? What, exactly, is it? And, wait—if I’m not part of the media, why do I even need it? Before we begin, let’s get that last question out of the way: Despite its name, media training is not actually for the media.
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| Top Blogger Andrew Sullivan Wants Your Cash | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 1:56 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Washington's fiscal cliff crisis may have been deferred for a couple of months. But if you're a fan of Andrew Sullivan's popular political blog The Daily Dish, you've got less than a month before you hit another, less dramatic cliff -- one roughly the size of a paywall. Sullivan announced Wednesday that the Dish would be leaving its current home at the Daily Beast and implementing a $20 a year fee, starting Feb.
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| Flurry: iOS, Android Activations for Christmas Week Top 50 Million | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:43 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| There were a lot of mobile devices under the tree this year, as evidenced by a new stat from Flurry Analytics: more than 50 million new iOS and Android activations over Christmas week. Flurry, which keeps tabs on 260,000 apps and claims it can detect 90% of new daily activations on smartphones and tablets, also reported that consumers downloaded 1.76 billion apps during the period of Dec.
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| Tumblr Reportedly Made $13 Million in Revenue in 2012 | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:27 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| It looks like Tumblr's ad push is starting to pay off. The company generated $13 million in revenue in 2012 and hopes to bring in $100 million in revenue this coming year, according to a Forbes profile of Tumblr's founder and CEO David Karp.
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| The Cookie Monster Tries to Keep New Year's Resolutions in Google Play Ad | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:38 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| The 56-second ad above neatly encapsulates the fate of many people's New Year's resolutions this week while slipping in a plug for Google Play. As with previous Google ads, including the 2010 Super Bowl spot "Parisian Love," the tale -- from ad agency Mullen -- is told through searches. First, the Cookie Monster -- last seen parodying "Call Me Maybe" --buys the Rocky soundtracks and some motivating movies, including Run, Fatboy, Run.
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| Hearst Claims 800,000 Digital Subscribers, the 'Highest in the Industry' | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:49 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Hearst Corp., publisher of Cosmopolitan, Elle and Road & Track among other titles, now has 800,000 paying digital subscribers, according to President David Carey. Carey (pictured) included the stat in a letter to employees at the company. The figure refers to monthly subscribers across all titles and via iPads, Nooks, Kindle Fires and Android devices for the end of 2012.
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| Apple Touts 'Do Not Disturb' Feature in New Ad Right After It Malfunctions | | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:30 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Apple's ads have already gotten off to a bad start this year. The company put out a new ad on New Year's Day touting the Do Not Disturb feature that comes with the latest version of iOS, which lets users mute incoming calls and alerts while the device is locked for a designated period of time. The problem isn't the ad itself, which is a pretty standard spot featuring the Williams sisters playing ping pong, but the timing.
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