Although the vast majority of brand engagement on Pinterest is user-generated, many branded accounts have achieved an impressive reach of their own. Social media-benchmarking company Unmetric took a look at 5,000 branded Pinterest boards in mid-March to assess which boards generated the most engagement in terms of followers, comments, likes and repins. Unsurprisingly, the most popular branded boar

Owners of Google Glass are reporting that Google is rolling out the device's first software update, and changing the version name to XE5. According to Phandroid, the update's improvements include bug fixes, optimizations and improvements. What's more, data syncing in the background now requires power and Wi-Fi connection, transcription of queries and messages is faster, and the battery-charge esti

Google Maps to Unveil Brand New Interface, Report Says UPDATE: When reached via email on Wednesday, Google declined to comment. Google is set to debut a new interface for its Maps app, according to a report. Google Operating System, a blog that provides unofficial news about the search giant, said the update will get rid of Maps' current sidebar, and will display location information in pop-ups th

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Whether it's writer's block or a roadblock, there are many "blocks" in life, and they aren't always easy to overcome. In this comic, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics shows us what it would be like if these blocks were literal instead of metaphorical. We're all just trying to make it to that block party, right? You can purchase Snider's comics as prints through his poster shop.

Facebook has made its way to Google Glass. Sharing to Facebook, that is, in the form of a third-party app appropriately named “Glass to Facebook.” Once connected to your Facebook account, the app lets you share pictures taken with Glass to your Facebook account. The process is exceptionally similar to the how the current third-party Twitter client works for Glass, in that it makes your Facebook ac

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One of the most talked about companies for online news right now isn't a journalism outlet or a media conglomerate, but rather a small startup incubator and investor located in the heart of Manhattan's meatpacking district. Betaworks, which describes itself as "a company that builds companies," has been in the news a lot lately for acquiring and developing media properties. In July, Betaworks boug

Maxwell was employee No. 10 at Pinterest and had worked at Apple on iOS before that. We named her on our 2012 list of 25 Powerful Women Engineers to watch. So, we were watching when we noticed that she left Pinterest in September. She just surfaced at Yahoo as the senior director of engineering for Yahoo!'s Mobile and Emerging Products Team, run by Adam Cahan. Cahan is one of Mayer's fresh-faced n