Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week?
LinkedIn Announces Intro, an iPhone Mail Enhancer: “Intro shows you LinkedIn profiles in your iPhone Mail app. This is a rich, interactive, application-like experience—right in your iPhone Mail app.”
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Facebook Improves Mobile Ad Performance: “Facebook has simplified the buying process for mobile app ads by giving you the option to bid and optimize for mobile app installs.”
LinkedIn Reinvents iPad App: LinkedIn has rebuilt the app for iPad “from the ground up offering a fresh, new visual design, a personalized experience and new functionality like search, jobs, channels and influencers that shines on the tablet.”
Facebook Adds Video to Mobile App Ads: “Now you can use video creative in your mobile app ad aimed at driving installs to bring your app to life in Facebook's mobile news feed.”
Foursquare Rolls Out New Look: “A new look for Foursquare.com that brings the best of Foursquare to your browser.”
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Tumblr Upgrades Customize Panel: Tumblr has “rolled out some major upgrades to the Customize panel” and “made big updates to the source code editor.”
Tumblr Refreshes Dashboard: “The dashboard just got a touchup! It's the same dashboard you know, with a cleaner and more minimal design.”
Facebook Launches Stories to Share: For Facebook pages of media organizations, Facebook is “beginning to test a new feature called Stories to Share.”
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