Booting Up: Pinterest Begins Its Journey Into Monetization With ‘Place Pins’

Another number to add to your Snapchat statistic stew: 70 percent of the app’s users are women. The rest are

Place Pins. (Photo: Pinterest/Skift)
Place Pins. (Photo: Pinterest/Skift)

Another number to add to your Snapchat statistic stew: 70 percent of the app’s users are women. The rest are dogs. [WSJ]

Pinterest is entering the travel sector with “Place Pins,” where users create boards and place…pins on to destinations. Sponsors will populate the slots with information and media about the area. [Skift]

Groupon’s new “Freebies” section sounds a lot easier than getting a Klout perk. [Chicago Tribune]

If Barry Diller still ran Fox, he would absolutely sue Aereo for scraping its signals. But since he financially backs the streaming startup and has successfully defeated any court cases against it, he says he’s “on the side of the Angels.” [TVSpy]

AOL’s Tim Armstrong and Gilt Founder Kevin Ryan are joining Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s transition team. [Politicker]

Booting Up: Pinterest Begins Its Journey Into Monetization With ‘Place Pins’