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Fashion Retailer Poised to Transform Fashion, Consumers, and Media Interactions NEW YORK, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Never before has a fashion brand exclusively streamed their fashion collection through Tumblr--until today. Club Monaco is an international lifestyle brand that designs fashion and accessories for men and women. They offer customers must-have fashions and key wardrobe pieces that together are the foundation of a modern wardrobe. Headquartered in New York...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online International hacktivist group Anonymous is looking to go legit – at least with the way it looks to share news and information. The controversial hacking collective has launched a website for crowd-sourced news. The group has announced Your Anon News (or YAN), named after the group’s Twitter handle. The news venture looks to move some of the group’s content away from its Twitter and Tumblr feeds, where Anonymous has...

Fast-Growing Style Site Continues Momentum with Investment from Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's AGR-ade Investments, Rohan Oza, RedOne and others SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hunt, the first community-driven online shopping experience that makes social media photos shoppable, announced today its second close of seed financing from a series of high profile investors. Among the group are Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's AGR-ade Investments, Rohan Oza (who made...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Blogging platform Tumblr reached an important milestone on Tuesday, having crossed the 100 million blog mark for the first time in its six-year history. The accomplishment, first reported by The Next Web, highlights the significant growth Tumblr has seen since last April, when the platform was home to just 50 million blogs. According to Tumblr’s “About” page, the site now includes some 44.6 billion posts, with more than...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Six-year-old blogging platform Tumblr has become a home to the meme, often the first place people go to capitalize on a moment in popular culture or current events. Up until six months ago, ads were absent from the site. Now, Tumblr plans to not only bring ads to their mobile product, but they also expect to make their first annual profit because of it. Advertising is often a scary word in social networking circles, something akin...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Given the number of cyber security breaches that have taken place this week, one has to wonder whether it isn’t perhaps all part of some elaborate plan. The latest hack attack occurred last night against help desk software maker Zendesk. Of the companies who use Zendesk’s services, Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter have all stated that their users’ data may have been compromised as a result of the attack. Zendesk CEO Mikkel...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It took less than a month for Twitter to change the age rating for possible adult content on its newly acquired video-sharing app Vine. Last month the micro-blogging site, which is primarily known for its 140-character messages, acquired Vine, reportedly beating Facebook to the micro-video-sharing service. It didn’t take long before Vine, which allows users to post GIF-like MP4 video files that are six-seconds long, to suddenly...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hunt, a community-driven shopping experience, launched today to solve shoppers' number one pain point: where to actually purchase items seen on photo-sharing websites such as Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr. While millions of social media users want to buy items from images they see shared online, more than 90% of these photos do not contain links or buying information. The Hunt caters to the emerging "eCommerce-ization of images"...

NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MAZ Digital Inc., a cloud-based publishing platform for tablet and mobile devices, has unveiled a new version of the company's digital publishing platform, further enhancing its signature "Clippings" functionality. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121219/NY32290) Launched in October, Clippings was the first tool to allow digital magazine readers to "clip" any piece of content in an app and share via email, Twitter, Facebook and...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A group of hackers going by the name "GNAA" claimed responsibility for a fast-spreading software worm that infected thousands of accounts on the popular micro-blogging site Tumblr on Monday morning. Users of infected accounts saw their pages defaced with a profane, expletive-laden message. Tumblr was able to fix the security exploit within hours, and released a statement Monday afternoon saying the site had been restored to...