Twitter is starting to give personalized recommendations for people to follow, as it pushes to increase retention of new users.
The company will suggest accounts based on who you currently follow and who those accounts follow, according to a blog …
The biggest of the independent real-time search engines, OneRiot, restructured its management today and laid off an unknown number of employees, including company co-founder Robert Reich.
Kimbal Musk, a serial entrepreneur who served as chief executive, is stepping aside to …
Earlier today, a Google status page which publicly tracks access to its services in China, reported that there was full blockage, or that search was unavailable between 67 and 100 percent of the time. But now Google says access to …
[Update: Google said its machines may have overestimated blockage to its services and that users are accessing search normally in the country.]
Google says its web search is now fully blocked in China.
A public site where Google has been …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two other Facebook executives have gone to Washington D.C. this week to explain the company’s stance on privacy as momentum builds for online consumer privacy legislation.
Privacy is a particularly pressing issue for Facebook, whose …
Facebook is making its long-awaited debut in the red-hot questions and answers space today. It’s launching a new product to about 5 million users today that lets them publicly ask and answer questions.
You can ask questions directly from the …
Another day, another Android departure.
Google’s worldwide head of Android business development and operations, Tom Moss, has left the company this month. He owned relationships with the major handset manufacturers and carriers for Google and led business development for the …
Facebook is rumored to be closing in on a deal to acquire the location-based app Hot Potato, according to TechCrunch.
The app, which is centered around events and things to do, lets you share photos and status updates around concerts, …
Facebook and Amazon.com partnered Tuesday in what could be one of the social network’s most important integrations yet. Amazon.com now offers a personalized page, where consumers can see product recommendations influenced by friends and their own tastes. They get notifications …
Facebook is aggressively courting publishers to get more news media sites to adopt its social tools and log-ins.
Media is the one area where the social network, which recently passed 500 million monthly active users, lags behind competitors as an …
Under stress from heavy World Cup traffic, Twitter fell to the bottom of the rankings that compare site load times and reliability for social networks, according to AlertSite today.
“Performance dropped significantly compared to Q1,” the company said. “The time …
Facebook is adding commenting, a much-requested feature to the “like” button it has spread across millions of sites.
Before, publishers had to choose between the older “Share” button, which had comments, and the new “Like” button, which didn’t. If you’ve …
Developers better keep their MAUs (or monthly active users) up.
Facebook is tweaking bookmarks on the left-hand side of the page so that the apps users interact with most frequently appear “above the fold” or above the “More” button.
Whenever …
If you go by tweets, Americans are happiest in the early mornings and then gradually become more negative as the work day progresses, according to researchers at Northwestern and Harvard universities.
A team of five researchers at the two schools …
Mark Zuckerberg and “The Facebook Effect” author David Kirkpatrick met for an on-stage conversation this evening at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Zuckerberg was much more relaxed, less sweaty and nervous than the last time he was on …
Mark Zuckerberg said that he was “quite sure” he didn’t sign any documents in 2003 that could have potentially handed over a majority stake in Facebook. He made the statement during an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC World News …
Twitter and Foursquare investor Fred Wilson shrugged off Facebook’s open graph, the social network’s strategy for mapping the web via people’s relationships and tastes, and called Apple evil for its increasing control over devices and the mobile ecosystem.
“Facebook is …
Facebook crossed a half-billion active users today, a little over six years after it launched out of Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard.
The company is celebrating by crowdsourcing stories from users about how the social network has affected their …
Yammer, a status update tool for businesses, said it crossed 1 million users today and added that the number of paid users has grown by more than 57 percent from the first quarter of this year.
Sometimes called Twitter for …
Yahoo’s net income rose by more than 50 percent from the same period a year ago, but overall revenue fell short of analysts’ estimates.
Analysts had estimated on average that the company would pull in $1.16 billion in sales excluding …
