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Facebook is said to be filing their IPO as early as next week according to a new report. The social network has been gearing up for it's inevitable IPO this year that is expected to raise up ...
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Twitter who has over 200 Million users, announced on their blog today that if required by law, they can censor tweets and even on a country-by-country basis. Being that the word censor is involved, this is sure ...
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Google+, the fastest growing social network of all time, has announced that starting today, Worldwide, they're open to teens. Previously, you had to be 18 or over to join the site, but that has changed.
Teens are a ...
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Twitter, the popular social network with over 200 Million users, acquired a spam and malware protection company. Anyone who uses the site is often familiar with accounts getting hacked and the sometimes abundant spam that gets targeted ...
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Google has released a new version of their sign up form which, while much more visually entertaining to look at, also looks to do away with anonymous accounts. The first two fields ask for your full name ...
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Facebook, the social network with almost 1 Billion users, is expected to IPO in late May according to a new report and information from several anonymous sources. Their IPO has long been talked about, particularly considering it ...
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The World's largest country based on population at well over one Billion people, also has the largest amount of people who access the web. New data came out that showed in 2011, 513 Million people accessed the ...
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GetGlue, a popular start up that has an app available for Android and iOS, announced that they've successfully raised $12 Million in new funding which was led by RHO Ventures.
Previous investors such as Union Square Ventures, Time ...
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A study by Forrester Research that consisted of about 100,000 people from Asia, North America, and Latin America, found that users in China and India are far more likely to create content via social media than consume ...
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Facebook on Sunday rolled out Facebook iPhone version 4.1, a new offering that brings with it access to the new Facebook Timeline profile feature.
First released for Android devices and web browsers on Thursday the new offering provides ...
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Facebook may not yet be a publicly traded company but that hasn't stopped the company from amassing an impressive amount of money.
A source close to the company's finances told Gawker on Thursday taht Facebook is currently sitting on nearly ...
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Bain Capital was an earlier investor in social business network LinkedIn and now the private equity firm is preparing to sell off their 3.7 million shares, an amount equal to $275 million at today's stock price.
That investment ...
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It never, ever, fails.
It happened with television, it happened with video games, and now it's social networks.
Yes, says a survey from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (pdf), using social network sites makes teenagers more ...
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Making random things social- like vending machines and grocery shopping- is a marketing trend that is likely to plague us for some time.
Of course, with more than one in three people hitting up the money-printing machine that ...
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Not to be outdone by the Egyptian couple that named their baby "Facebook," an Israeli couple have bestowed the name "Like" in honor of the ubiquitous social network upon their newborn baby girl.
Little baby Like joins siblings ...
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The idea of your unpaid student loan debts or late car payments being publicized on your Facebook wall is probably pretty unpleasant sounding.
With high unemployment and a record wealth divide right now in the US, it also ...
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Social media movements are again being discussed as possible pivotal evidence in a high-profile murder case, this time with a defense lawyer claiming Twitter updates prove his client's self-defense claim.
18-year-old Shanterrica Madden stands accused of the murder ...
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It seems your Facebook profile represents an idealized version of you to you, one that has the effect of boosting self-esteem when you review it.
A recent study at Cornell University divided 63 students into three groups. All ...
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Marketing firms are expected to spend $3.08 billion for online social media ads in the United States in 2011 an amount equal to 11% of the overall online market ad space according to a recent study by ...
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Back in September 2010 Apple announced to the world that it had launched its own social network called Ping and for the most part the world yawned and went about its business ignoring for the most part ...
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A Michigan man is facing five years in prison after police say he logged into his wife's Gmail account without her permission with the intention of spying on her.
33-year-old Leon Walker is charged with a felony 'hacking' ...
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Technology and its widespread use evolves daily, and as it does, the way sometimes intensely personal information is used (possibly against you) by companies and agencies often has no legal precedent.
One such case would be the collection ...
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