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Mark Zuckerberg announced his and wife Priscilla’s second major charitable contribution to date — a gift of 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The gift was announced, not surprisingly, by a post on Zuckerberg’s timeline Tuesday evening. Facebook shares are currently valued at $27.71 each, so the 18 million share gift Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer Chats with Richard Quest About Instagram on CNNi. Continue Reading →

Your Facebook News Feed is about to get more annoying. The social network is getting ready to populate feeds with video ads according to AdAge. Why now? To “attract big swaths of ad dollars from TV advertisers.” By April, Facebook will reportedly have video ads airing on its desktop site and smartphone and tablet apps. Continue Reading →

iPhone users welcomed Google Maps with open arms when it was finally released by Google late last week. The app quickly vaulted to the No.1 spot in Apple’s App Store as more than 10 million people rushed to download it during the its first 48 hours of availability. Apple executives weren’t happy. Australian citizens were. Continue Reading →

Redbox Instant by Verizon, a joint venture between Redbox and Verizon Communications, is now gradually rolling out to users in private beta after being teased earlier this month. The service offers unlimited streaming movies, plus 4 DVD credits and includes a free, one month trial. Redbox Instant is launching at an $8 per-month subscription price, Continue Reading →

We’ve been waiting for the Wii U’s cable box/television-controlling TVii features to make it since the system launched late last month. As of Wednesday, it’ll finally be here. But without a few key components. The big omission is DVR capabilities through TiVo. That’s the only way to use the Wii U as a DVR, so Continue Reading →

If you’re the dramatic, over eager type who burns bridges for a living (or if you’re just sick of all the bullcrap on the Internet), you can delete your Instagram account with hardly any fuss. Unlike other social networks that add hurdles and boulders and cliffs and a jazillion questions to stop you from deleting Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121219_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] After last week’s rumors that we might soon see advertisements in our Instagram feeds, Facebook’s real plan for monetization has a lot more people up in arms. Instagram added a line to their Terms of Service, which states that “a business may pay Instagram permission to display Continue Reading →

The House of Representatives has voted to approve a bill which would make it easier for users to share movies that they’re watching on social networks like Facebook on Tuesday. That could eventually lead more video services, like Netflix, to integrate with Facebook’s Open Graph and enable “seamless sharing” of that content. The bill, H.R. Continue Reading →

Google updated its Google Music service on Tuesday with a “music matching feature” that is sure to make streaming music from the cloud more convenient. Google Music can now scan your entire library of music from your computer and match up to 20,000 songs in your cloud library so that there’s no need to upload Continue Reading →