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Bloomberg reported that Pinterest Inc. must face a lawsuit from a digital marketing strategist who says she helped conceive the social media platform, a California judge ruled. According to Bloomberg, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Seabolt denied the company’s motion to dismiss the suit, but he eliminated co-founder Paul Sciarra as a defendant because he left Pinterest a decade ago.
Bloomberg reported that PayPal Holdings Inc. is exploring an acquisition of social media company Pinterest Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter. Bloomberg wrote that PayPal approached Pinterest about a potential deal in private talks. The companies have discussed a potential price of around $70 a share (according to people who were in private talks and who did
Instapaper has announced that it is making Instapaper Premium available to all Instapaper users, free of charge. Previously, some of Instapaper's greatest features were limited to Instapaper Premium subscribers. Since then, Instapaper has joined Pinterest. The result is that Instapaper is now better resourced and able to offer Instapaper Premium for free. All Instapaper users will now have access to:
Instapaper announced that it is joining Pinterest. I use both Pinterest and Instapaper (rather sporadically). The biggest change that has been revealed is that Instapaper will be sunsetting Instaparser. Instapaper points out that their core mission was to allow users to discover, save, and experience interesting web content. This matches well with Pinterest. Instapaper says that “joining Pinterest provides them
Pinterest has added something new that will give users a faster, better, way to search Pinterest. They are calling it their Visual Search Tool. This new way to search Pinterest is being rolled out to all users as of November 9, 2015. The Visual Search Tool allows users to crop an image that they see on Pinterest in order to
Pinterest announced that they are now a creative community of more than 100 million people. This is a major milestone for Pinterest. This might not sound so huge if you compare it to the amount of people on some of the social media websites. CNBC reports that Pinterest's one billion users is one-third the size of Instagram and Twitter. Both
Pinterest has decided to go on record with their hiring goals for 2016. In addition, they are sharing their plan for reaching those goals. Pinterest is doing this because they are aware that there is not a lot of diversity in the tech industry. This is their way of increasing diversity. In 2013, Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou kicked off the