Link Roundup: What You Don’t Want to Miss in Social Media and Tech
- Foursquare lives on… for now. Don’t remove the social check-in service from your brand strategy just yet. It’s raised $41 million to prove that its business model is viable. [Mashable]
- Facebook Home, the suite of software apps that’s now available for certain Android smartphones, has been getting a lot of buzz. Here’s what marketers need to know about the social experience. [Huffington Post]
- In teenage eyes, Apple still reigns supreme. New study shows that 48 percent of teens own an iPhone; 62 percent expect an iPhone as their next mobile device. [CNN]
- You’ll now see more web pages featuring Vine videos. The Twitter-owned video service has enabled web embedding for the 6-second clips. [Digital Spy]
- Mobile apps aren’t going anywhere, developers! App downloads climbed 11 percent in Q1 2013 over Q4 2012. Mobile games are making up a huge chunk of that percentage. [ReadWrite]
- Twitter to go after a piece of the music app pie? The microblogging service just acquired We Are Hunted, a music discovery service. [CNET]