Businesses Can Now Handle Instagram Messaging Requests at Scale with Zendesk

A retail company that receives a direct message from a customer about the status of their order can reply to the customer quickly with accurate information about the shipment directly from Zendesk.

A customer who is scrolling through Instagram and watches a brand's Story promoting a holiday sale can immediately message them for more information. Zendesk's predictive analytics explains customer's desires and the best products to send their way.

Over 1,000,000 Pics From Instagram Will Be Visible to Facebookers on All Your Devices

Pinterest has long relied on streaming its photos to its users, but thanks to Facebook, the social network has updated its sign-in process with other social networks to bring Instagram into the fold, too.

Dynamic Landscapes in Instagram

Instagram integrates with Apple's Time Machine utility to find weekend photos from your iCloud backups. If you set your Time Machine to start automatically backups only late Sunday night through Wednesday morning your go-to weekend vacation photos will be included in Timeline and highlighted in Messages.

Sidenote: Imagine that, but consider whether that really adds to that weekend vacation.

LinkedIn is Now Accepting Bitcoin

Not only is Bitcoin a decentralized digital currency, it's more convenient. In addition to being easier to transact, it's also cheaper to send coins around the world compared to credit card transactions (

Mark Zuckerberg Leads Facebook's Single Sign-On Push

While it bears mentioning that Microsoft is also pushing its version of Single Sign-On back into the spotlight, recognizing users as they go about their daily lives is critical for a company's overall success. As System Center 2014 includes support for Microsoft's Lync, that's just one more reason to go full-steam ahead.

Android & iOS Will Be Shared Together "The Big Way" in Testing

It's no secret that iOS and Android (and with virtualization, iOS and OS X) are the top two popularity competing systems for personal computers (PCs). It's likely that Facebook expected to do much of the Android dev work itself and found itself entangled when Apple had eerily similar plans regarding iPhones. Unsurprisingly, that may mean having to do the same thing when Apple begins providing Android "the Big Way." But will it be Facebook's ones to do so? Only time will tell.

He needs a leadoff hitter with a little pop, but because of the time restrictions on the Diamondbacks, it might not be any time soon. That's what the Diamondbacks thought last summer when they were swayed by the Ohio late-inning replacement of their starter after he was injured with runners near home. The prices available at the trade deadline and the subsequent price on the free agent market made that trade tank rather quickly. Though Barmes had a nice year, he's not an
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